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A Natural History of Pragmatism
by Joan Richardson Publisher Comments Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of...
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And Even Now
by Max Beerbohm Publisher Comments 'I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were...
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Canada And Other Poems
by T.F. Young Publisher Comments The Fairest Flowers Often Fade, And Die, Alas! Too Soon, Ere Half Their Life Is Sped, They Droop, And Wither In Their Bloom....
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Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity
by Ian Baucom Publisher Comments In a 1981 debate on the British Nationality Act, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000
by Justin Quinn Publisher Comments Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the worldfs most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of...
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Old English Libraries
by Ernest A. Savage Publisher Comments The Making, Collection, And Use Of Books During The Middle...
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Lysis
by Plato Publisher Comments Ah, Hippothales, I said; what a noble and really perfect love you have found! I wish that you would favour me with the exhibition which you have been making to the rest of the company, and then I shall be able to judge whether you know what a lover ought...
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Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England
by Timothy Rosendale Publisher Comments The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important and influential books in English history, but it has received relatively little attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending to the Prayerbooks importance in...
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Dickens and the Daughter of the House
by Hilary M. Schor Publisher Comments Examines the role of 'legless angels' (George Orwell), 'angry women' and 'good daughters' in Dicken's narratives....
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The Erotic Bird: Phenomenology in Literature
by Maurice Natanson Publisher Comments How does literature illuminate the way we live? Maurice Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's unique power to show how fiction can highlight aspects of experience that are normally left unexamined. By exploring the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
by Esther Schor Publisher Comments Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing...
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Camb Intro Emily Dickinson
by Wendy Martin Publisher Comments This introduction delves behind the myth of Emily Dickinson to present her in the context of her time....
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Modernism, Narrative and Humanism
by Paul Sheehan Publisher Comments Sheehan reveals the crucial link between the Modernist novel's narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation....
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Theocritus
by Theocritus Publisher Comments LACON. Be Daphnis' woes my portion, should that my credence win! Still, if thou list to stake a kid--that surely were no sin-- Come on, I'll sing it out with thee--until thou givest in....
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The Lord of the Rings' Metaphors
by Publisher Comments A six-part exploration of the metaphors in J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical tale, The Lord of the Rings. The exploration covers not only events and physical features, but also the meaning of names and their background in history and in the politics of our...
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CliffsNotes Shakespeares Hamlet
by Carla Lynn Stockton Publisher Comments < p> Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but your grades will be sweet when you rely on < b> CliffsNotes on Hamlet< /b> as you digest Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece. Character studies shed new light on Prince Hamlet, his...
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Camb Comp to F. Scott Fitzgerald
by Ruth Prigozy Publisher Comments Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel...
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Postmodern Pooh
by Frederick C. Crews Publisher Comments Nearly forty years ago, a young literary scholar by the name of Frederick Crews had an inspired idea: to portray his trendsetting peers in the act of applying their critical acumen to the adventures of that deceptively simpleminded teddy bear of...
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De ninfas, hadas, gnomos y otros seres fant
by Berta, Luc Estrada Publisher Comments Cuando uno revisa detenidamente el rico universo de la literatura infantil, no sólo los cuentos tradicionales de los Hermanos Grimm o de Andersen, sino la literatura africana, precolombina, asiática o australiana, siempre se encuentra con los mismos...
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They And I
by Jerome K. Jerome Publisher Comments I am a Republican in theory, but it grieved me that a son of mine could be drawn to such companionship. They contrived to keep it for a week--till the police found it one night, artfully hidden behind bushes. Logically, I do not see why stealing apples...
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