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The End of Literary Theory
by Stein Haugrom Olsen  Publisher Comments The essays in this collection are concerned with the philosophical problems that arise in connection with the understanding and evaluation of literature - such problems as the relationship between the work and the author (authorial intention), between...
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The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh
by Ian Ker Publisher Comments THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1845-1961 presents a thorough discussion of the six principal writers of the Catholic revival in English literature -- Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, and Waugh. Beginning with Newman's conversion...
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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing Since the 1980s
by Janet Burstein Publisher Comments Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham...
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New Anthology of American Poetry Volume 1
by Steven Goul Axelrod Publisher Comments Volume 1 of this comprehensive anthology features a generous selection of Native American materials, then spans the years from the establishment of the American colonies to about 1900, a world on the brink of World War I and the modern era....
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Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (UK Edition)
by Penelope Fitzgerald Publisher Comments New edition....
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Selections from the Poetical Works of William Cowper
by William Cowper Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Classical Literature: a Concise History (UK Edition)
by Richard Rutherford Publisher Comments This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410....
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Hermes Stella or Notes and Jottings Upon the Bacon Cipher
by W. F. C. Wigston Publisher Comments This volume was meant to be an appeal for a reexamination of Mr. Donnelly's claim of a secret cipher in the "Shakespeare" plays. In its current form, it can be considered a collection of rough notes and jottings on this topic, hurried into print due to...
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Robert Browning: Poems Selected By Douglas Dunn (UK Edition)
by Robert Browning Synopsis In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here...
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Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines
by Mark Poster Publisher Comments "Engaging, informative, and thoroughly enjoyable, "Information Please" is a tour de force in its clear articulation of a coherent approach to the spectrum of issues arising from the penetration of information technology into every aspect of human life...
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Transformation of the Classical Heritage #26: The Shadows of Poetry
by Sabine Maccormack Publisher Comments Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official...
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Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart
by Andrea O'reilly Herrera Publisher Comments Mothering is a central issue for feminist theory, and motherhood is also a persistent presence in the work of Toni Morrison. Examining Morrison's novels, essays, speeches, and interviews, Andrea O'Reilly illustrates how Morrison builds upon black women's...
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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Synopsis A collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement. Although Coleridge's poetic achievement was small in quantity,...
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Andre Gide: Homosexual Moralist
by Patrick Pollard Publisher Comments Andr Gide, renowned French essayist, novelist, and playwright, was a homosexual whose sexuality was central to the whole of his literary and political discourse. In the first serious study of homosexuality in Gide's theater and fiction, Patrick Pollard...
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Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed
by Doreen Fowler Publisher Comments Doreen Fowler's Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed is only the second book-length psychoanalytic interpretation of Faulkner's oeuvre and the first to be predicated on Lacanian theory as modified by Kristeva and Chodorow. Fowler exposes psychic...
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Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy
by Michael G Cooke Publisher Comments ""For the serious student of black writers and black writing, this book is provocative and challenging, not to mention original. If one's appetite for black literature is large, this book will be a continuous source of nourishment.""-Charlayne Hunter...
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The Language and Literature Reader
by Ronald Carter Publisher Comments The Language and Literature Reader is the first collection in over a decade to address the study of the linguistic foundations and components of literature. Encompassing essays by key thinkers in linguistics such as Katie Wales, Michael Toolan, and Paul...
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The Epigrams of Philodemos: Introduction, Text, and Commentary
by David Sider Publisher Comments This edition collects all the epigrams attributed to Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemos of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). In editing these epigrams, Sider has reexamined several manuscripts of the Greek Anthology. Thirty-eight epigrams (three only...
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Montaigne and Shakespeare - And Other Essays on Cognate Questions
by John M. Robertson Publisher Comments MONTAIGNE AND SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER ESSAYS ON COGNATE QUESTIONS - I909 - NOTE OF the following essays, the first originally appeared as a series of magazine articles in I 896, and thereafter, revised and expanded, as a separate volume in 1897. That...
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Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems, Prose, Reviews, and Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
by Barbara Gelpi Synopsis This edition adds some of Adrienne Rich's more recent verse and some of her prose writings to the edition published in 1975 ("Adrienne Rich's Poetry"). Students can now study the whole of her oeuvre, together with a reviews and criticism section and a...
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