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Everybody's America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism
by David Witzling  Publisher Comments Emphasizing the relationship between Pynchon??'s formal experimentation and his interest in American and international race relations, this book argues that an ambivalent reaction to the emergence of identity politics and multiculturalism is central to...
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A Companion to Pablo Neruda: Evaluating Neruda's Poetry (Monografias a)
by Jason Wilson Publisher Comments Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self...
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A Companion To Science Fiction
by David (edt) Seed Publisher Comments A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science...
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The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism
by Chenxi Tang Publisher Comments The Geographic Imagination of Modernity traces the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought in the decades around 1800. This period represents an extraordinary intellectual threshold, a time when European society invented new...
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The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide
by Christopher Gair Publisher Comments The relaxed, gritty and candid writing of the revolutionary Beat Generation, including Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl, has inspired generations. In his chronicle of the inner workings of the Beat movement and its members, Christopher Gair...
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Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are (Yale Studies in English)
by Paul H Fry Publisher Comments In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth’s motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or...
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Companion To Shakespeares Works Volume 4
by Richard Dutton Publisher Comments The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare's poems, problem comedies and late plays....
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Uses of Literature (Blackwell Manifestos)
by Rita Felski Synopsis Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for...
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Burning Books
by Matthew Fishburn Publisher Comments Book burning is one of the taboos of modernity, due in part to its association with the Nazi book fires. This event provides the focus for a study of the broader history of destroying a book by fire, arguing for a more complex and nuanced understanding...
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Hamlet: Character Studies (Character Studies)
by davies Shakespeare Synopsis It is an ideal introduction for students looking to develop an advanced understanding of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies....
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Shakespeare for Beginners (For Beginners)
by Brandon Toropov Publisher Comments Despite the reshifting of values that has affected every aspect of life in the 21st century, William Shakespeare still stands as the greatest writer the English language has ever produced. Even so, many people have never read him. If you have never read...
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Uses of Literature (Blackwell Manifestos)
by Rita Felski Synopsis Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for...
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Oratory of Classical Greece #12: Demosthenes, Speeches 20-22
by Edward M. Harris Publisher Comments This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline...
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Revival and Resurgence in Christian History: Papers Read at the 2006 Summer Meeting and the 2007 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Studies in Church History)
by Kate (edt) Cooper Publisher Comments From early in the history of Christianity, there have been numerous attempts to revive ideals and practices believed to be those of the primitive church, or to foster a resurgence of Christian faith and practice, in devotional, intellectual...
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Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus Publisher Comments Vilified by generations of philosophers and moralists, the goddess Folly decides to climb onto the pulpit and vindicate herself, since humankind stubbornly refuses to acknowledge her many indisputable virtues. Doesn't she make life a blessing by giving...
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Mnemosyne, "Supplements" #298: Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
by E. A. (edt) Mackay Synopsis This seventh volume on Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece and Rome presents a series of essays that explore the workings of memory in ancient texts and artworks marking the shift over centuries from an oral to a literate culture....
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The Most Disreputable Trade
by Thomas F. Bonnell Publisher Comments A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grown ever since, as we see from series like Penguin...
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Reading Catullus
by John Godwin Publisher Comments Erotic, scatologically disgusting, sublimely beautiful: the poems of Catullus continue to fascinate students and critics alike, wielding their wicked Epicurean influence over new generations. Reading Catullus introduces the general reader to the infamous...
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Renaissance Historicisms
by James M. (edt) Dutcher Synopsis This collection of various approaches to early modern England offers readers such pleasures as the most complete bibliography to date of King James's poetry, a unique edition of a memoir by the son of Sir Martin Barnham, as well as new arguments about...
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Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard
by Thomas J. Cousineau Synopsis The epigraph to Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's masterpiece, a novel entitled Correction, reads: A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position. Three-Part Inventions finds in this simple geometrical axiom a...
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