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The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
by Robert Michael (bobb) Cotter  Publisher Comments This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. Monster magazine is a blanket term to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters, both of...
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The Poetry of Praise
by J. A. Burrow Publisher Comments One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical...
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Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
by Guy Reynolds Publisher Comments Following World War II, Americans entertained a far more international political, cultural, and intellectual awareness as well as a greater fascination with development, progress, and modernity than ever before. In a revisionist account that takes...
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The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: 20th Century
by Lisa Maria (edt) Hogeland Publisher Comments A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century US women's writing, this volume contains works by over 150 women writing in a variety of genres. Works include not only fiction, drama, and poetry, but various nonfiction forms (autobiography, movement...
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Shakespeare on the Double! the Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare Publisher Comments I am ashamed that women are so simpleTo offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremancy, and sway When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. This romantic farce stars gold-digging Petruchio, who is determined to marry a...
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Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Susan Bernstein Publisher Comments In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into...
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The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age (Postwestern Horizons)
by Neil Campbell Publisher Comments Is the American West in Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns” the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch’s movies? In Calexico’s music? Or is the American West, as this book tells...
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Magill's Literary Annual, 2008 (2 Volume Set) (Magill's Literary Annual)
by John D. (edt) Wilson Publisher Comments Magill's Literary Annual, 2008, is the fifty-third publication in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill's Literary Annual seeks to evaluate critically 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the...
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Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
by Glenda R. Carpio Publisher Comments Reassessing the meanings of black humor and dark satire, Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic conjuring--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial...
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Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein
by Leon Stover Publisher Comments As a publisher's category, science fiction began in the American pulp magazine industry in 1926. But its origins lay in the British tradition of the scientific romance, whose mastery by H.G. Wells in his Victorian youth (1895-1901) makes him the father...
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
by William Blake Synopsis Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness....
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Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/O Literature (Chicana Matters)
by Sheila Ma Contreras Publisher Comments Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses...
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Shakespeare and Republicanism
by Andrew Hadfield Publisher Comments Andrew Hadfield reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought critical of the English crown. Although he was often seen as a conservative political thinker characterized by an over-riding...
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Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide. by Tory Young
by Tory Young Publisher Comments Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer...
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Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
by Glenda R. Carpio Publisher Comments Reassessing the meanings of black humor and dark satire, Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic conjuring--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial...
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu #60: Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
by Daniel A. Novak Publisher Comments This radically new account of the relationship between photography and literary realism in Victorian Britain draws on detailed readings of photographs, writings about photography, and fiction by Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde. While other...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas)
by Zora Neale Hurston Synopsis Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore. Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the...
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Shakespeare on the Double! Othello
by William Shakespeare Synopsis Here's a practical way to make more sense of the Moor of Venice Othello often turns up in literature survey courses and on AP reading lists, and has sold over 136,000 copies since 2003....
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Shakespeare's Family
by Kate Emery Pogue Publisher Comments While many things about Shakespeare's life are unknown, certainly, like everyone else, he had a family. This book gathers into a single source as much information as possible concerning Shakespeare's immediate family, from his grandfathers on the...
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature #70: The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
by Mary Carruthers Publisher Comments Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition...
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