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Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism (After the Empire)
by Alec G. Hargreaves  Publisher Comments Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. This interdisciplinary volume explores the multiple forms of this upsurge and the forces driving it in popular...
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The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States, 1945-1970
by Thomas Newhouse Publisher Comments The "Beat Generation" that emerged after World War II and reached its zenith in the 1960s represented an era of new perspectives. The questioning, anti-establishment view of the world prevalent among the various members of the Beat Movement found its...
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu #46: Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain
by Janis Mclarren Caldwell Publisher Comments Janis Caldwell investigates the links between the growing scientific materialism of the nineteenth century and the persistence of the Romantic literary imagination. Through closely analyzing literary texts from Frankenstein to Middlemarch, and examining...
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Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Piron (Legenda Main)
by Derek Connon Publisher Comments Alexis Piron (1689-1773) was one of the most renowned humorists of eighteenth-century France, his rapier wit feared even by Voltaire. As a playwright, he was one of the most versatile of the period, writing for both the official French and Italian...
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Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television
by Lee Siegel Publisher Comments Television Has Taken Firm Hold of American life ever since the first flickering images replaced the disembodied voices innocently crackling from the radio. Ever present and evolving, television thrives at the crossroads of commerce, art, and...
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The Moods of Homeric Greek (Cambridge Classical Studies)
by Jo Willmott Publisher Comments Homeric Greek has a particularly rich system of moods which are analysed afresh in this book in the light of recent theoretical interest in the semantic domain of modality. The domain is one of the most complex and interesting, since modal forms are used...
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Ulysses : the Corrected Text (86 Edition)
by James Joyce 
Powells.com Staff Pick James Joyce shattered all the standard literary conventions which had confined the novel and artistic experimentation when Ulysses was published in 1922. When writers read this book, they can only wish to write like Joyce. Recommended by Travis...
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Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
by Derek Pearsall Publisher Comments In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser....
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Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage
by Frances Teague Publisher Comments An account of popular Shakespeare performances in America, and of musicals based on Shakespeare??'s plays....
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Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature: From Joyce to Kelman, Doyle, Galloway, and McNamee (New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature)
by Mary M. Mcglynn Publisher Comments "Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature" argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. These new constructions of dwellings and...
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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel the Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston
by Marilyn Herbert Publisher Comments Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's favorite narrator, is at it again, and Bookclub-in-a-Box is right by his side. After you read this fascinating book, read the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide and discover Roth's genius as a writer. If one is already a fan of...
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Where the Angels Come Toward Us: Selected Essays, Reviews & Interviews
by David St John Book News Annotation Finely reasoned and elegantly written essays and reviews on many major contemporary poets, produced over the course of poet St. John's career, along with six interviews on the craft and current state of poetry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland,...
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Bibliotherapy: The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives
by Beverly West Publisher Comments Because women read books differently than guys do... <BR>Every woman knows ... books are more than a way to kill time on the bus -- they're therapy that fits in our bag. Whether we're wallowing in a sullen perennial adolescence or our biological...
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Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (Angelaki Humanities)
by John Kinsella Publisher Comments John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. ...
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Contemporary Novelists
by Peter Childs Publisher Comments Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent writers, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing on their most-studied writings, Childs develops new readings of these authors' key novels...
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Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
by Tracy Fessenden Publisher Comments "Tracy Fessenden's "Culture and Redemption" is an important work of scholarship. The book makes a compelling case for seeing particular forms of Protestant religion as an 'unmarked category' in American cultural analysis and urges a rethinking of some...
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Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work
by B. J. Rahn Publisher Comments In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of...
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Beloved (Guides) (Bloom's Guides)
by Harold (edt) Bloom Publisher Comments - Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces - Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work - "The Story Behind the Story" details the conditions under which the work...
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Literature, Theory, and Common Sense
by Antoine Compagnon Publisher Comments "A strong and eloquent book that skillfully combines intellectual rigor and personal reflection. The debate between theory and common sense provides a kind of dramatic tension that makes for lively and pleasurable reading. In its balanced approach and in...
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The Poetry of Tennyson
by Henry Van Dyke Synopsis 1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets, -great in the clarity and beauty and nobility of his style; great...
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