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Gilles Deleuze: Essays Critical and Clinical
by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments The final work of the late philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) includes essays on such diverse literary figures as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, and others, along with philosophers Plato, Spinoza, Kant, and others. Taken...
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Michael Ondaatje's the English Patient: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by John Bolland Publisher Comments This is an excellent guide to Michael Ondaatjes best-loved novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, a comparison of the novel to the film, and a great deal more. If youre studying this novel, reading it for your...
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A Midsummer's Night Dream: Critical Essays
by Dorothea Kehler Publisher Comments This volume of essays traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essays focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory....
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Conversations with John Le Carre (Literary Conversations Series)
by John Le Carre Publisher Comments Career-spanning interviews with the leading writer of the contemporary spy novel, one whose books have been made into many award-winning movies, among them The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Russia House, and The Tailor of...
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Cambridge Guide To Literature in English 3RD Edition
by Cambridge Publisher Comments The most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available....
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Muirchu Moccu Mactheni's 'vita Sancti Patriccii' Life of Saint Patrick
by Book News Annotation Howlett (classics, U. of Oxford) here begins a set of three books illustrating the intertwining of literary threads in the three traditions of Celtic Latin that emerged from Romano-British culture of the first four centuries of the Christian era...
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Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation (Rethinking Theory)
by Robert Storey Publisher Comments In Mimesis and the Animal, Robert Storey argues that human culture derives from biology and that literary representation therefore must have a biological basis....
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Pietas from Vergil to Dryden
by James D. Garrison Publisher Comments The author has written an extraordinary history of the meanings and applications of a single word--- pieta--- and its cultural and Roman antiquity, early Christian Europe, the European middle ages, and sixteenth- and seventeenth -century Italy, France...
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Readings Book VI
by Walter De La Mare Publisher Comments READINGS SELECTED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ANI THOMAS QUATLE, D. Litt. BOOK VI BASIL BLACKWELL OXFORD INTRODUCTION To be able to read is to be t able to explore just as far as we can and wish the World of Books. Even the smallest library, con sisting only of...
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Amy Tan: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers,)
by E. D. Huntley Publisher Comments Amy Tan has established a reputation as a major novelist of not only the Asian American experience but the universal experience of family relationships. With the publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, which touched the hearts of millions of...
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Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitlaism
by Fredric Jameson Publisher Comments Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism." Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to "low," from market ideology to architecture, from...
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Stages #21: Fuzzy Fiction:
by Jean-louis Hippolyte Publisher Comments An evaluation of the work of contemporary French authors through the lens of the fuzzy set theory of mathematics....
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The Negro Character in American Literature
by John Herbert Nelson Publisher Comments The Negro Character in American Literature BY JOHN HERBERT NELSON, PH. IX Associate Professor of quot English m The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Department of Journalism Press 1926 PREFATORY NOTE Several years ago, in looking quot about for a...
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Lily and the Big Italian Wedding
by Jessica Lollino Synopsis Lily's mommy is getting married, but when Lily meets her new family, she not only feels like she doesn't belong, but feels like maybe they don't want her around at all. Lily turns to her friends and family, new and old, for a little help....
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Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990
by Richard Allen Publisher Comments Literature and Nation disects the relationship between Britain and India from 1800 to 1900, using key literary and historical texts. Books from "Kim" to "Mansfield Park" and "Midnight's Children" are used in conjunction with primary source material to...
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by Edmund Wilson Publisher Comments In his introduction to Patriotic Gore, Edmund Wilson asks, 'Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861-1865 in which so many people were so articulate?' Regarded by many critics as Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore more...
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The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Children
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Publisher Comments 1920. Russian author, deemed the foremost stylist in Russian literature, Turgenev's novels, poems and plays are characterized by elegant craftsmanship, lucidity and a liberal, balanced point of view. Considered his masterpiece, in Fathers and Sons...
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Invisible man :notes - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Cliffsnotes Publisher Comments This novel about a young black man in Harlem reveals the process of self-discovery and emphasizes individuality. Through a difficult passage into manhood, Ellison writes of the alienation of humans in everyday life, yet he remains whole and optimistic....
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Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
by Deborah Epstein Nord Publisher Comments "Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930," is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works...
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The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
by Lorna Hutson Publisher Comments The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama....
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