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Toni Morrison's Fiction (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
by Jan Furman  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-120) and index....
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Measure for Measure : Text and Contexts (04 Edition)
by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments This edition of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play...
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Resisting Representation
by Elaine Scarry Publisher Comments Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of...
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1845-1848
by Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments JOURNALS OF RALPH WALQO EMERSON WITH ANNOTATIONS EDITED BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON AND WALDO EMERSON FORBES -- I 845-1 848 -- CONTENTS . -- JOURNAL XXXVI From Journals V, W, and Y Anti-Texas-Annexation Convention. Wendell Phillips. Slavery question in...
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The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
by Michael Wachtel Publisher Comments An exploration of poetic form in the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky....
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Precious Lives (UK Edition)
by Margaret Forster Publisher Comments Follow-up to Forster's bestselling family memoirs, "Hidden Lives". "... focuses on the long life - 96 years - of Forster's father, Arthur, the indomitable patriarch of the family. Intertwined with this is the story of Marion Davies, Forster's sister-in...
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What's to Become of the Boy: Or, Something to Do with Books (European Classics)
by Heinrich Boll Publisher Comments In 1981, Heinrich Boll returned to the streets of his childhood in this remarkable collection of nonfiction. This volume captures the musings of a mature Boll as he looks back with fondness and with anger on his formative years: as a student who avoided...
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The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution
by Jack London Publisher Comments Big things are happening secretly all around, says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel The Iron Heel, excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising...
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The Short Story Readers' Advisory: A Guide to the Best (ALA Readers' Advisory Series)
by Brad Hooper Publisher Comments In this handy reference, you'll find an introduction to the world of short-story writing, more than 200 critical essays covering short story writers past and present, and a step-by-step guide on how to interview readers in order to match their tastes...
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Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature
by Sean Keilen Publisher Comments This original book challenges prevailing accounts of English literary history, arguing that English literature emerged as a distinct category during the late sixteenth century, as England's relationship with classical Rome was suffering an unprecedented...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
by Robert Welch Publisher Comments By turns sacred or profane, mystical or earthy, scathingly satirical and modern or achingly nostalgic for the ever-receding past, the literature of Ireland has long entranced and entertained readers the world over. Now The Oxford Companion to Irish...
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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations (Dodo Press)
by William Benson Publisher Comments William Benson (1682-1754) was a talented amateur architect and an ambitious and self-serving Whig place-holder in the government of George I. Benson was the eldest son of Sir William Benson, Sheriff of London in 1706-07. In London he published a Whig...
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Cambridge History of Classical Literature #2: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 4, the Early Principate
by E. J. Kenney Publisher Comments A detailed portrait of the ???Silver??? Age of Latin literature....
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The Hymns of Orpheus
by Thomas Taylor Publisher Comments A photographic facsimile of the 1792 edition, published in London, this includes a preliminary dissertation on "The Life and Theology of Orpheus, " "The Initiations of Orpheus" which were the invocations used in the Eleusinian Mysteries, and "Concerning...
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Hamlet Without Hamlet
by Margreta De Grazie Publisher Comments A study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare’s Hamlet....
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Proper Lady & the Woman Writer: Ideology As Style in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, & Jane Austen
by Mary Poovey Publisher Comments "A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the...
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Cigarettes Are Sublime
by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein...
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New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics #2: The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
by Walter Benn Michaels Publisher Comments "The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism" discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines...
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Baudelaire's World
by Rosemary Lloyd Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-241) and indexes....
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
by Robert D. (edt) Denham Book News Annotation Canadian literary critic Frye (1912-91) published his volume of four essays in 1957, but this edition draws mainly on paper editions published by Atheneum in 1965 and Princeton University Press in 1971, which incorporate a few corrections. The essays,...
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