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Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
by Paul Fussell  Publisher Comments A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s....
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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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Bleak House: An Authoritative and Annotated Text, Illustrations, a Note on the Text, Genesis and Composition, Backgounds... (Norton Critical Edition)
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson...
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The Novel Now: Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
by Richard Bradford Publisher Comments The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction....
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Ethan Frome (Cliffs Notes)
by Suzanne Pavlos Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format...
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Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
by Joyce Coleman Publisher Comments This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages....
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (Reencounters with Colonialism--New Perspectives on the Ameri)
by C. L. R. James Publisher Comments Available in its complete form for the first time since its original publication....
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The Plot Thickens... Harry Potter Investigated by Fans for Fans
by Rowling Publisher Comments This new book provides the hints and clues readers need to unravel the complex mysteries that are found in J.K. Rowling's septology. Illustrations....
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The Best Part of Me: Children Talk about Their Bodies in Pictures and Words
by Wendy (ilt) Ewald Publisher Comments An award-winning photographer asked several children "What is the best part of you?", and presents their answers in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, deeply personal book that includes striking black-and-white photographs taken by the author. Ideal...
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The Good Life According to Hemingway
by A E Hotchner Publisher Comments In the fourteen years that A. E. Hotchner traveled with Ernest Hemingway, he collected a lifetime's worth of Hemingway's experiences, anecdotes, and observations on the backs of matchbooks, napkins, and slips of paper. Speaking on everything from war to...
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Emily Dickinson, Accidental Buddhist
by Rc Allen Publisher Comments Emily Dickinson, Accidental Buddhist presents clear internal evidence that Dickinson experienced a cosmic awakening. Buddhist tradition provides the framework for a rational presentation of Dickinson's incisive dharma poetry....
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Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism
by Jane P Tompkins Publisher Comments With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre....
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Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (Southern Literary Studies)
by Harriet Pollack Publisher Comments The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. An African American boy from Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was accused of...
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Arthurian Handbook (2ND 97 Edition)
by Norris J. Lacy Synopsis Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in "Star Wars...
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Why Poetry Matters (Why X Matters)
by Jay Parini Publisher Comments Poetry doesn’t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the...
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The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction
by John Phillips Publisher Comments This book introduces the Marquis de Sade as writer and philosopher to new readers, offering concise but comprehensive surveys of his most controversial works, based on contemporary theoretical approaches. The style is lively and accessible without...
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
by Ian Watt Publisher Comments Ian Watt's classic book on the early eighteenth-century novel. Accessible, straightforward, readable, The Rise of the Novel is as relevant and important today as when it was published....
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Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka
by Stanley Corngold Publisher Comments On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story The Judgment, which came out of him like a regular birth. This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters...
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Mythology: Modern Approaches to Timeless Stories
by Eva M Thury Publisher Comments Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths introduces students to a wide range of myths from various critical perspectives. Featuring original texts from sources around the world, it includes readings from Greek and...
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg Synopsis In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents," Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts....
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