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Hellenic Studies #16: The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
by Laura Slatkin  Publisher Comments Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in theIliad. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and...
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On Tolkien: Interviews, Reminiscences, and Other Essays
by Douglas A. Anderson Publisher Comments An extraordinary glimpse into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien through his own words and those of family, friends, and colleagues A collection of rare interviews and personal reminiscences found nowhere else. Beginning with a short interview with Tolkien from...
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The Bard & Co.: Shakespeare's Role in Modern Business
by Jim Davies Publisher Comments Shakespeare's well-loved body of work is analyzed by 26 leading business writers, demonstrating how the truths of each play are still relevant in today's contemporary business world. In this fascinating collection of essays, themes as old as time—...
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The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature
by Herschel Farbman Publisher Comments "I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams.From The Interpretation of Dreams to Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century tell...
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The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
by Matthew Schneider Publisher Comments The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n’-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the...
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Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles
by David C. Downing Publisher Comments Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th...
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Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
by Daphne Lamothe Publisher Comments It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the...
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Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1975-2005
by Daniel Williams Publisher Comments Lively and informed, provocative and perceptive, this specially commissioned work is a superb guide to English-language poetry in Wales during the last 30 years. Adopting a thematic approach and exploring the field through the prisms of...
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Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination
by Shanyn Fiske Publisher Comments The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians’ relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular...
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Coleridge's Afterlives
by James Vigus Publisher Comments In this volume, thirteen essays examine the full breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, imagination, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, and poetry. It offers new research to the...
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Hartley Coleridge: A Reassessment of His Life and Work
by Andrew Keanie Publisher Comments The first modern study of Hartley Coleridge, showing that he deserves our attention not as the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but as a literary presence in his own right....
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The Ant King: And Other Stories
by Benjamin Rosenbaum Publisher Comments "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin...
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Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction: From Atwood to Morrison
by Sharon Rose Wilson Publisher Comments Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers’ use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris...
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Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
by Guy Reynolds Publisher Comments Following World War II, Americans entertained a far more international political, cultural, and intellectual awareness as well as a greater fascination with development, progress, and modernity than ever before. In a revisionist account that takes...
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A History of the Munster Anabaptists: Inner Emigration and the Third Reich: A Critical Edition of Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Bockelson: A Tale of
by George Von Der Lippe Publisher Comments A defining work in the "Inner Emigration" literary movement, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's History of the Münster Anabaptists was written in 1937 as a criticism of the Nazi regime. This English translation includes documents, scholarly essays...
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The Wishing Year: A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire
by Noelle Oxenhandler Publisher Comments One New Year’s Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental and separated from the spiritual community that once had sustained her. With little left to...
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Cicero as Evidence: A Historian's Companion
by Andrew Lintott Publisher Comments Cicero, one of the greatest orators of all time and an important politician at the time of the downfall of the Roman Republic, has left in his writings a first-hand view of the age of Caesar and Pompey. However, readers need to learn how to interpret...
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Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello"
by Emily C. Bartels Publisher Comments Speak of me as I am, Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? At the turn of the sixteenth...
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Realist Vision
by Peter Brooks Publisher Comments Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world “as it is.” Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth...
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Crime Wave: Collected Nonfiction (Ace Performer Collection)
by Dashiell Hammett Publisher Comments Though he is celebrated for his fiction, Dashiell Hammett was also an investigative journalist whose nonfiction is anthologized for the first time in this collection. All the pieces that ran in Hammett's syndicated newspaper column "The Crime Wave...
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