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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
by Cambridge  Publisher Comments Substantially enlarged and updated for this new edition, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the definitive guide to the vast and extraordinarily rich heritage of literature written in English. It covers all the major novelists, poets and...
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Handbook To Literature 8TH Edition
by William Harmon Publisher Comments This comprehensive book is the definitive reference on literature and literary criticism in English. This easytouse, alphabetically arranged reference source covers over 2,000 terms, including those from computing and information management as well as...
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Oxford Companion To American Literat 6TH Edition
by James David Hart Publisher Comments For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this...
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Malcolm Cowley, a checklist of his writings, 1916-1973
by Diane U. Eisenberg Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive listing of Malcolm Cowley’s literary works, excluding anthologies, from 1916 to 1973. Malcolm Cowley, critic, poet, and literary historian, has been a central figure in the American literary scene for more...
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The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
by Oxford Publisher Comments From Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in the seventeenth century, to Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize in 1993, women writers have woven a rich tapestry of voices across four centuries of American history. Their writings have...
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The New York Public Library Literature Companion
by New York Public Libr Publisher Comments Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the...
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A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers (2001-2002)
by Poets & Writers Book News Annotation This reference includes the names, contact information, and publication credits of over 7,400 contemporary American poets, fiction writers, and performance writers. The main listings are organized by state and country and include such information as...
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Literary Conversation: Thinking, Talking, and Writing about Literature
by Patsy Callaghan Synopsis Designed for introductory literature courses, "LITERARY CONVERSATION presents critical thinking, reading, and writing strategies designed to elicit successful interpretation of literary works. The book invites readers to join widening and concentric...
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Concise Glossary of Contemporary Lit 2ND Edition
by Jeremy Hawthorn Publisher Comments Taking words from a variety of sources, and from a range of different languages and cultures, it is little wonder that contemporary literary theory poses peculiar difficulties of usage and understanding. This new edition of Hawthorn's acclaimed glossary,...
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Edwardian fiction :an Oxford companion
by Sandra Kemp Publisher Comments The Edwardian era saw a remarkable outpouring of fiction, much of which we don't normally think of as Edwardian. There were major works such as Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, and D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers...
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Major Characters in American Fiction
by Jack Salzman Book News Annotation Explores women's experience and historical consciousness of the Solidarity Movement and post-communist Poland, based on interviews, iconography, and commemorative practices of the Solidarity labor union. Finds that women, many of them activists in the...
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A Handbook of critical approaches to literature
by Wilfred L Guerin Publisher Comments For over twenty-five years a favorite of instructors and students around the world, this comprehensive guide to the major critical approaches to literature has been thoroughly revised to reflect the explosion of critical theories and the radical...
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The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
by Lorna Sage Publisher Comments Alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present....
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A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers
by Peter Parker Publisher Comments Which playwright spent two years copying old masters in the Louvre to sell to tourists? Which poet was arrested and charged with obscenity for the publication of Howl? Which writer described her ideal life as "lying on a pink fur rug doing absolutely...
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Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory
by J A Cuddon Book News Annotation **** The 1979 edition is cited in Sheehy and BCL3 under the title A dictionary of literary terms--the truncated title still used in the CIP citation. The new edition has been expanded to encompass literary theory and critical movements, and many of...
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The Poetry Dictionary
by John Drury Publisher Comments This compendium of definitions, thorough descriptions and examples of poetry clarifys the rich and complex language of poetry writing....
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of French Literature
by Joyce Reid Publisher Comments This invaluable abridgement of The Oxford Companion to French Literature ranges far beyond the strictly literary and artistic field to cover aspects of French history, philosophy, religion, language, politics and education, a very wide variety of...
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Annals of American Literature, 1602-1983
by Richard M. Ludwig Publisher Comments This unique reference volume lists chronologically the major literary works published in America since colonial days. Modeled on its successful English counterpart, Annals of English Literature 1475-1950, the American Annals presents the main literary...
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The Feminist companion to literature in English :women writers from the Middle Ages to the present
by Virginia Blain Book News Annotation Some 2,700 biographical entries, arranged alphabetically, about all types of women writers in English from throughout the world, from George Sand to Gypsy Rose Lee. Longer topical entries address genres, events, institutions, and specific activities...
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Reader's Catalog: An Annotated Selection of More Than 40,000 of the Best Books in Print in 208 Categories
by Geoffrey Obrien Book News Annotation Distribution of The Reader's catalog is by Random House. Conceived and published by Jason Epstein this annotated bibliography of some 40,000 titles is aimed at the general reader. Order fulfillment is offered through a toll-free phone (books are...
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