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At Emerson's Tomb
by John Carlos Rowe  Publisher Comments Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any...
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Protagoras
by Plato Publisher Comments COMPANION: Where do you come from, Socrates? And yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know that you have been in chase of the fair Alcibiades. I saw him the day before yesterday; and he had got a beard like a man,--and he is a man, as I may tell you...
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Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940
by Peter Stoneley Publisher Comments Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalised for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence....
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The Cambridge Companion Coleridge
by Lucy Newlyn Publisher Comments Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry, journalism, philosophy and oratory without ever quite...
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The Americans of Asian American Literature
by Rachel C. Lee Publisher Comments Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have...
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
by Janell Watson Publisher Comments A study of the significance of curiosities and collecting in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French literature....
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Repositioning Shakespeare
by Thomas Cartelli Publisher Comments Thomas Cartellia offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events which appropriate Shakespeare....
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On Stories
by Publisher Comments Richard Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories are deep at work in all forms of writing, and discusses the power of the story in its ability to determine our identities and the identity of the world around us....
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Wild Wales Its People, Language And Scenery
by George Borrow Publisher Comments I will not be hushed, said the woman, speaking English. "The man is a good man, and he will do us no harm. We are tinkers, sir; but we do many things besides tinkering, many sinful things, especially in Wales, whither we are soon going again. Oh, I want...
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The Unbearable Bassington
by H. H. Munro Publisher Comments FRANCESCA BASSINGTON sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to...
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The Advance Of English Poetry In The Twentieth Century
by William Lyon Phelps Publisher Comments Robert Browning, whose normality in appearance and conversation pleased sensible folk and shocked idolaters, summed up in two stanzas the difference between the popular conception of a poet and the real truth. One might almost take the first stanza as...
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Enter The Body
by Carol Chillington Rutter Publisher Comments One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them....
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Consequences of Enlightenment
by A. J. Cascardi Publisher Comments Leading critic explores the link between politics, philosophy and aesthetics in a range of important thinkers....
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The Spirit Of Place And Other Essays
by Alice Meynell Publisher Comments The world at present is inclined to make sorry mysteries or unattractive secrets of the methods and supplies of the fresh and perennial means of life. A very dull secret is made of water, for example, and the plumber sets his seal upon the floods whereby...
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Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric
by Catherine Bates Publisher Comments In early modern lyric poetry, the male poet or lover often appears not as powerful and masterly but rather as broken, abject, and feminine. Catherine Bates examines the cultural and literary strategies behind this representation and uncovers radically...
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Cambridge Companion to Chaucer 2ed
by Piero Boitani Publisher Comments The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material...
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Christianity in Bakhtin
by Ruth Coates Publisher Comments This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin, paying particular attention to the motifs of God the Creator, the Fall, the Incarnation and Christian love. This is the first full...
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Engendering Rome
by A. M. Keith Publisher Comments Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display...
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Uncensored: Views & (Re)Views
by Joyce , Carol Oates Publisher Comments Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York...
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Babylonian And Assyrian Literature
by Anonymous Publisher Comments As Samas' Car Sank In The Glowing West, And Sin The Moon-god Forth Had Come Full Drest For Starry Dance Across The Glistening Skies, The Sound Of Work For Man On Earth Now Dies, And All Betake Themselves To Sweet Repose. The Silver Light Of Sin Above...
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