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Romanticism at the End of History
by Jerome Christensen  Publisher Comments The Romantics lived through a turn of the century that, like our own, seemed to mark an end to history as it had long been understood. They faced accelerated change, including unprecedented state power, armies capable of mass destruction, a polyglot...
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The Works of Laurence Sterne Part Six
by Laurence Sterne Publisher Comments 1790. Part Six of Eight. Containing Tristram Shandy and the Political Romance; Sentimental Journey with the Continuation; The Koran; Letters; Sermons; and with An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Sterne, English humorist, whose masterpiece...
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Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
by David Crystal Publisher Comments 'You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare's plays today. For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times...
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A History of Reading in the West (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
by Guglielmo Cavallo Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-471) and index....
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Nos Tomamos La Palabra
by Priscilla Gac-artigas Publisher Comments College Reader: Critical Anthology of works by Latinamerican Women Writers for Advanced level of Spanish courses: Survey of Latinamerican Literature and Latinamerican Women Writers....
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Women Writers in Russian Literature
by Toby W. Clyman Publisher Comments .,."For all readers interested in the fabric of women's literature and women in a literary society, this book represents the highest achievement to date in Russian studies. All levels." Choice...
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Virginia Woolf
by Nigel Nicolson Publisher Comments The son of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson paints an affectionate, yet, critical portrait of the the twentieth century literary giant. 5 b/w & 5 colour plates....
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Poetics of the Feminine: Authority & Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, & Kathleen Fraser
by Linda A. Kinnahan Publisher Comments This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a woman's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser....
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Interpretation and Overinterpretation
by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and...
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Nature Writing: The Pastoral Influence in America (Genres in Context)
by Don Scheese Publisher Comments In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American writers. He documents the emergence of the modern form...
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Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
by Seamus Perry Publisher Comments Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and...
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Wild Wales Its People, Language and Scenery
by George Borrow Publisher Comments I will not be hushed, said the woman, speaking English. "The man is a good man, and he will do us no harm. We are tinkers, sir; but we do many things besides tinkering, many sinful things, especially in Wales, whither we are soon going again. Oh, I want...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
by W E B Dubois Publisher Comments "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first...
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Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State: Professionalism and Conformity in the Gdr
by Robert Von Hallberg Publisher Comments For two generations, writers in the German Democratic Republic enjoyed a massive audience in their own country, a readership dependent on their works for a measure of utopian solace amid the grimness of life under Communism. But after the fall of the...
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Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
by Reginald Shepherd Publisher Comments "Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who...
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Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
by Lawrence Manley Publisher Comments In the two hundred years from 1475 London was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city, and a leading European trading center. Lawrence Manley provides a comprehensive account of the changing image...
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At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut
by Kevin Alexander Boone Book News Annotation Literature, English, and writing professors, mostly Vonnegut scholars and friends, address Vonnegut's essays, novels, and short fiction, focusing on themes in his work including aesthetic humanism, postmodernism, progress, science, morality, and...
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Celan Studies (03 Edition)
by Peter Szondi Publisher Comments “The English translation of Szondi’s seminal work constitutes an important landmark for Celan afficionados who are not proficient in the German language.”—Bianca Rosenthal, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis...
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The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
by Virginie Greene Publisher Comments This collected assesses of the role of the author in Medieval French literature, with a focus on writers such as Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pizan, and lesser-known figures including Gerbert de Montreuil, Gautier de...
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More Outstanding Books for the College Bound (05 Edition)
by Young Adult Library Services Association Publisher Comments Guides high school students - and lifelong learners - in reading selec Contains lists of recommended books for reading to prepare for college Section one divides the books into different genres, with a brief note each, and section two offers a...
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