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Politics of Orality: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, Vol. 6 (Mnemosyne, Supplements)
by Craig (edt) Cooper  Book News Annotation Cooper (classics, U. of Winnipeg, Canada) presents 18 papers from the sixth conference on Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, held in July of 2004 at his home institution. The papers explore with the political and cultural tensions of shifting...
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Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (UK Edition)
by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Synopsis This illustrated history surveys English literature in India from the 1800s to the 1900s, covering not only what is considered literature proper but also other genres such as polemical, anthropological and wildlife writings....
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Student Edition (UK Edition)
by Jean Rhys Synopsis Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family...
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Critical Theory Today (2ND 06 Edition)
by Lois Tyson Publisher Comments This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader...
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The Literary Community: Selected Essays 1967-2007
by Ted Solotaroff Publisher Comments Introduction by Russell Banks No one understands the loneliness of the long-distance writer in a tumultuous time better than Ted Solotaroff. These wise, lucid, superbly-humane essays have been mined from deep tunnels of insight and experience, and...
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H.G. Wells at the End of His Tether: His Social and Political Adventures
by Gordon D. Feir Publisher Comments H.G. Wells was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. He published over one hundred books, yet he is recognized by only two or three of his popular novels including The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. Why has such a well known and...
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Wheel of Fire ((5TH)89 Edition)
by G. Wilson Knight Publisher Comments Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, "Wheel of Fire" is the masterwork of the brilliant English...
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Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance (American Indian Studies)
by Michael D. Wilson Publisher Comments In Writing Home, Michael Wilson demonstrates that the use of acceptable Western literary forms by indigenous peoples, while sometimes effective, has frequently distorted essential truths about their cultures. Sermons, for instance, have provided some...
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Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642
by Adam Zucker Publisher Comments This collection of original essays redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 through 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean or pre-Revolutionary in character. Through local readings of the texts and institutions of...
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Faulkner and Religion (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha)
by Doreen Fowler Publisher Comments The Nobel Laureate's religious perspectives as shown by noted Faulkner...
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such: The Works of George Eliot
by George Eliot Publisher Comments These eighteen essays were the last published work by George Eliot (a pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, 1819-80). First published in 1879, they touch on topics ranging from plagiarism and self-deception to moral blindness and national consciousness. This...
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Prague: a Cultural and Literary Companion (UK Edition)
by Richard Burton Synopsis A treasure house of Gothic, baroque and modernist architecture, Prague is a city of icons and symbols - statues, saints, and signs reveal a history of religious and cultural conflict. This work explores this metropolis of theatrical illusion, in which...
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Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
by Charles Nicholl Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-five, Arthur Rimbaud—the infamous author of A Season in Hell, the pioneer of modernism, the lover and destroyer of Verlaine, the "hoodlum poet" celebrated a century later by Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison—turned his back on...
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Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris
by Karen Newman Publisher Comments Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, political, and social changes wrought by the industrial...
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Austen's Emma (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Thomas J Rountree Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. "CliffsNotes on Emma explores a satiric novel that stabs at manners and social classes, all the while delivering entertainment in a mild...
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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of Her Works (Library of Medieval Women)
by Katharina Wilson Publisher Comments Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics....
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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
by Helen Hennessy Vendler Publisher Comments When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with...
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The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language
by Hudson Maxim Synopsis 1910. Contents: Foundation Principles; The Evolution of Analogical Speech; The Crossing of the Rubicon of Trope Separating Man from the Brute; What is Poetry?; What Poetry Is Not; Potentry; Application of the Fundamental Principles of Composition and...
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Evolution of the Book (98 Edition)
by Frederick G. Kilgour Publisher Comments Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of...
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At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education
by R. V. Young Publisher Comments R.V. Young examines the dominant trends in literary theory during the past thirty years, chronicling their effect on the teaching of literature and the imparting of a liberal education....
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