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The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction
by Nicholas Dames  Publisher Comments How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He...
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Germinal
by Emile Zola Publisher Comments 1924. With an essay by Francis Gribble. Zola, French writer, critic and leader of the naturalist school. Zola's work often portray groups of humans in the grip of circumstances beyond their control, often destined to be destroyed in monumental...
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Platonism and the English Imagination
by Anna Baldwin Publisher Comments The first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on English literature. '... a fascinating introduction to the variety and richness of the tradition Plato inspired'. The Times Literary...
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Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on the Prelude
by Mary Jacobus Publisher Comments This rereading of Wordworth's The Prelude, in light of post-structuralist and feminist theory, is the first study of the poem from both a Wordsworthian and feminist viewpoint. Through close examination of Romantic autobiography, theatrical politics, and...
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Shakespeare's Histories
by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments "Shakespeare's Histories "features all the scholarship and pedagogy of David Bevington's "The Complete Works of Shakespeare "in a genre-specific, paperback volume. Pulled from Bevington's popular and authoritative hardcover "The Complete Works of...
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Figures & Figurations
by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments A beautiful gift edition of FiguresandFigurations: the collaboration between the Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie José Paz. FiguresandFigurations, one of the last works completed by the great late...
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Collected Works (UK Edition)
by Antonin Artaud Publisher Comments Drama. Antonin Artaud is one of the two or three most influential innovators of the twentieth century, whose theories and production ideas, along with his writings and plays, have brought a new poetic impulse and dynamic intensity to the stage, replacing...
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Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children Volume III
by Charles Henry Sylvester Publisher Comments Ridiculous! cried the Queen. "Why, don't you see, child--" here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation. "What do you mean by 'If you really are a queen?' What right have you to call...
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Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic
by John Cullen Gruesser Publisher Comments Confluences looks at the prospects for and the potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. John Cullen Gruessers study emphasizes the confluences among...
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Collected Works of W. B. Yeats #12: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya
by Richard J. (edt) Finneran Publisher Comments First published in 1891, "John Sherman" and "Dhoya" represent some of Yeats's most important prose. Yeats's only complete attempt at realistic fiction, "John Sherman" is about a man torn between two women and two cities, London and Dublin. "Dhoya" is a...
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Experiment in Criticism (61 Edition)
by C.s. Lewis Publisher Comments 'Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism...
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Introduction to Sociology Development
by Robert Ed. Webster Publisher Comments This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest debates in the sociology of development, linking theoretical and empirical issues of social change primarily though not exclusively through reference to the Third World. This book covers...
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AZ Murder Goes...Artful (AZ Murder Goes...)
by Barbara Peters Publisher Comments Raymond Chandler called it The Simple Art of Murder, a misleading title. It never has been simple to write mysteries. But it is an art, and often the crimes investigated are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities. Where there is...
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Authors and Friends
by Annie Fields Publisher Comments The solitude of Celia Thaxter's childhood, which was not solitude, surrounded as she was with the love of a father and a mother, all tenderness, and brothers dear to her as her own life, developed in the child strange faculties. She was five years old...
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Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing
by William Large Publisher Comments With a central focus on themes of ethics and subjectivity, this analysis pairs Maurice Blanchot's creativity with Emmanuel Levinas's philosophies across topics of friendship, the opposition of speech to writing, and the ethical role of language....
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The Plays of Thomas Kilroy: A Critical Study
by Thierry Dubost Publisher Comments This appraisal of the works of Thomas Kilroy focuses on the common themes and methodology of his plays, including an unusual alliance between serious theatrical complexity and varied but demanding forms of comedy. A separate chapter is devoted to each...
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A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)
by Diana E Henderson Publisher Comments This "Concise Companion" presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary...
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The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Prefatory Memoranda; the Incognito Or Count Fitz-hum; Rhetoric; Life of Milton V10
by Thomas De Quincey Publisher Comments In 16 Volumes. Other Contents: The Revolution Of Greece; Style; and The Dice....
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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel "The Time Traveler's Wife"
by Marilyn Herbert Publisher Comments Audrey Niffenegger's romantic novel The Time Traveler's Wife tells the tender story of Henry and Clare, a married couple, whose relationship is as unique as is every love affair. Niffenegger takes the concept of time out of the linear sequence that we...
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Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England #12: Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
by Peter Clemoes Publisher Comments Radical reinterpretation of Old English poetry and its relation to Anglo-Saxon thought and society....
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