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The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
by Nicholas (edt) Hewitt

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This volume is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern France....
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Reading Virginia Woolf
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Reading Virginia Woolf
by Julia Briggs

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With grace and style, noted Woolf critic and biographer Julia Briggs reconsiders the author's work from imaginative and unexpected angles, spanning her early fiction experiments to her late short story "The Symbol" and from the most to the least familiar...
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Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America
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Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America
by Avril (edt) Horner

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This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects...
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Today You Are My Favorite Poet: Writing Poems with Teenagers
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Today You Are My Favorite Poet: Writing Poems with Teenagers
by Geof Hewitt

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Today You Are My Favorite Poet is a refreshing look at the art of poetry writing. It is also a vigorous exploration of a variety of approachesinvolving form, style, content, and attitude. Hewitt offers proven strategies for writing and revision, provides...
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The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. Jerome

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Now, which would you advise, dear? You see, with the red I shan't be able to wear my magenta hat. Well then, why not have the grey? Yes-yes, I think the grey will be MORE useful. It's a good material. Yes, and it's a PRETTY...
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Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art
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Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art
by Alma Jean Billingslea-brown

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Offers a new look at black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms, examining works by writers Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall, and visual artists Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar. Looks at how each of these artists engaged identity issues of...
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The Poetry of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism
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The Poetry of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism
by Robert Vilain

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This study suggests that Hugo von Hofmannsthal's early interest in the works of the French Symbolists had an inhibiting effect on his own poetry and contributed to the famous "Chandos crisis" in 1902....
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The Tempest (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
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The Tempest (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Sheri Metzger

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the...
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Splay Anthem
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Splay Anthem
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In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey's "asthmatic song of aspiration" scuttles across cultures and histories — from America to AndalucĂ­a, from Ethiopia to Vienna — in a...
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Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, de Quincy and Hazlitt (Romanticism in Perspective)
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Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, de Quincy and Hazlitt (Romanticism in Perspective)
by Tim Fulford

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Examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain....
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George Eliot: A Critic's Biography (Writers Lives)
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George Eliot: A Critic's Biography (Writers Lives)
by Barbara Hardy

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George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and one of Britain's great novelists. This biography offers insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common...
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A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
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A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
by Oyekan Owonoyela

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This study reflects the legacy of colonialism by devoting nine of its thirteen chapters to literature in 'Europhone' languages-English, French, and Portuguese....
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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
by Peter Carey

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Discusses the novel, "True History of the Kelly Gang."...
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Paradise Lost: John Milton (UK Edition)
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Paradise Lost: John Milton (UK Edition)
by John Milton

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This edition presents the text of "Paradise Lost Books 1 and 2" followed by detailed notes, an Approaches section covering Milton's life, his poetic technique, the religious background, the Epic as poetic form and a synopsis....
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Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (Analysing Texts)
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Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (Analysing Texts)
by Nicholas Marsh

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Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" took the literary world by storm when it was published in 1847. There had never been a novel like it, and it continues to cast a powerful spell over readers to this day. This book takes extracts and examines them in...
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Second Common Reader (86 Edition)
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Second Common Reader (86 Edition)
by Virginia Woolf

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Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield's letters and De Quincey's autobiography. She writes, too, about the...
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A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
by Phillip (edt) Pulsiano

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This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars. Embraces...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
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The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope

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A droll young English gentleman with a fascination for feudal Ruritania and a marked physical resemblance to its king impersonates the king to help defeat a plot against him, then falls in love with the kings betrothed....
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Women Are Different (African Women Writers Series)
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Women Are Different (African Women Writers Series)
by Flora Nwapa

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A story about the trials and tribulations of Nigerian women from their early childhood through their adult...
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Contributions in Women's Studies #198: Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change
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Contributions in Women's Studies #198: Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change
by C. C. Langdell

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Although best known as a poet, Adrienne Rich is a versatile critic and a gifted writer of nonfiction and critical theory. Writing in the oracular tradition of Whitman and Dickinson, she affirms the will to change as an enduring commitment in her life and...
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