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Oxford English Literary History #13: The Internationalization of English Literature: 1948-2000
by Bruce King  Publisher Comments In the future will there be a literary history of England, or will it be an English-language literary history? This important and concluding volume in The Oxford English Literary History covers colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers since 1948...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Bloom's BioCritiques)
by Harold (edt) Bloom Publisher Comments Each new volume is a biographical and critical review of one of the world's most important writers with expert analysis by Harold Bloom. Get a wealth of information on the writers most commonly read in high schools, colleges, and universities....
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Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New England
by Michael Kaufmann Synopsis Exploring the means by which individuals define themselves in relation to their institutional affiliations....
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My World--And Welcome to It (Harvest Book)
by James Thurber Publisher Comments The world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage-all fall within Thurber's scope....
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Hesiod & Theognis
by Hesiod/wender Publisher Comments Together these two poetsùHesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegistùoffer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece....
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Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
by Tessa Watt Publisher Comments This book looks at how popular religious belief was reflected in the cheapest printed wares available in England in the century after the Reformation: the broadside ballad, the woodcut picture and the chapbook (a small pamphlet, usually of 24 pages). Dr....
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Books and Persons
by Arnold Bennett Publisher Comments Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931). He was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, one of six towns in the area known as the Potteries where many of his novels were set....
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Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty
by Andrew John Miller Publisher Comments This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century--Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf--wrestled with the geopolitical situation in the period from World War I through World War II....
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Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos ' Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character '
by Plutarch Publisher Comments Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content...
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Modern Prose Style
by Bonamy Dobree Publisher Comments MODERN PROSE STYLE BY BONAMY DOBRfiE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS . . . they wholly mistake the nature of criti cism who think its business is principally to find fault. Criticism . . . was meant a standard of judging tvell the chief est part of which...
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Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
by Tony Hillerman Publisher Comments In "Talking Mysteries, Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique....
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Representation and Its Discontents
by Azade Seyhan Publisher Comments Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and...
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Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England
by William Le Queux Publisher Comments Le Queux was the first and most prolific of all British spy writers, but Spies of the Kaiser was not just another tale of scheming foreigners and plucky British heroes, for this paranoid tale of German secret agents plotting the invasion of Britain...
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The Adv of Huckleberry Finn (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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The Atlas of Middle-Earth
by Karen Wynn Fonstad Publisher Comments Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-Earth is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-Earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of...
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Anglo-Saxon Styles (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)
by Catherine E. Karkov Publisher Comments A volume in the SUNY series in Medieval Studies Paul E. Szarmach...
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Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (01 Edition)
by Helene P. Foley Publisher Comments Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have...
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In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations
by Marianne Boruch Publisher Comments <div>In these thoughtful, richly personal essays, Marianne Boruch takes a fresh view on old poets, considering such questions as how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams's poetry and how Edison's listening, through his famous...
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Reconstructing Woman: Gender and Scientific Thought in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
by Dorothy Kelly Publisher Comments Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a new Pygmalion (as Balzac calls one of his characters) turns away...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by John Peters Publisher Comments The most comprehensive guide to Conrad??'s life, work, context and major themes....
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