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CliffsNotes Emersons Essays
by PhD H. Rose  Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Emerson's Essays explores the influential writings of a gifted scholar and humanitarian. Covering six of Ralph Waldo Emerson'...
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Henry James, Women and Realism
by Victoria Coulson Publisher Comments Women were hugely important to Henry James, both in his vividly drawn female characters and in his relationships with female relatives and friends. Combining biography with literary criticism and theoretical inquiry, Victoria Coulson explores Jamess...
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by Houdar de La Motte Publisher Comments Il y a deux sortes de public qui s'interessent aux disputes des gens de lettres. Le prémier n'y cherche que le plaisir malin de voir des auteurs se dégrader les uns les autres ; s'attaquer et se défendre par des railleries ingénieuses ; et relever...
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The Spectacle of the Growth of Knowledge and Swift's Satires on Science
by Beat Affentranger Publisher Comments This is a revisionist study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century satires on science with an emphasis on the writings of Jonathan Swift and, to a lesser degree, Samuel Butler and other satirists. To say, as some literary commentators do, that the...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound
by Ira B. Nadel Publisher Comments Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet...
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
by Robert Matz Publisher Comments Robert Matz analyzes the defense of literature in Renaissance England in the context of social transformations of the period, particularly those affecting the aristocracy as it evolved from a feudal warrior class to a civil elite. Through close readings...
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CliffsNotes Animal Farm
by Daniel Moran Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the...
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McTeague
by Frank Norris Publisher Comments McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, it tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague, his wife Trina, and...
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Even More Nasty Stories
by Brian McNaughton Publisher Comments Twenty-One Even Nastier Stories from the Secret Master of Horror ? because you?ve read you know to be...
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Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production
by Douglas Mao Publisher Comments In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham...
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Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism
by Mark Turner Publisher Comments In this book, Mark Turner shows that the languages of literature and everyday life are different expressions of the same universal mechanisms of the mind. Drawing on the languages and metaphors of kinship and causation, and on myriad examples in English...
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Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
by David Wray Publisher Comments Literary study using two comparative models to offer a new understanding of Catullus' poems....
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J. Henry Shorthouse, "The Author of John Inglesant": (with reference to T. S. Eliot and C. G. Jung)
by Charles Spurgeon Publisher Comments When J. Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903) published John Inglesant in 1881, he contributed a unique synthesis of Anglo-Catholic sensibilities to the enduring legacy of the Oxford Movement. Although his 'philosophical romance' has been acclaimed 'the greatest...
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Latin Literature
by J.W. Mackail Publisher Comments To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later, the beginnings of a real literature seemed definitely fixed in the generation which passed between the first and second Punic Wars. The peace of B.C. 241 closed an epoch throughout...
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The Book Of Snobs By One Of Themselves
by William Makepeace Thackeray Publisher Comments If you, who are a person of the middle ranks of life, are a Snob,--you whom nobody flatters particularly; you who have no toadies; you whom no cringing flunkeys or shopmen bow out of doors; you whom the policeman tells to move on; you who are jostled in...
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius Publisher Comments A timeless classic of wisdom by a enlightened Roman Emperor who was one of the great minds of history....
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Philosophical Chaucer
by Mark Miller Publisher Comments While most Chaucer critics interested in gender and sexuality have used psychoanalytic theory to analyze Chaucer's poetry, Mark Miller re-examines the links between sexuality and the philosophical analysis of agency in medieval texts such as the...
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Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History
by Christine van Boheemen Publisher Comments Examines the relationship between Joyce, postmodernism, feminism and colonialism in Ireland....
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Arthur Riss Publisher Comments Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum U.S. culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. Situating...
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CliffsNotes Ethan Frome
by Suzanne Pavlos Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format...
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