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African Fiction and Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality
by Caminero Santangelo
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By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this book examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of "the canon" can serve. While contemporary literary studies too often represent such revisions... ( read more)
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Transition 95
by Henry Louis Gates
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An international review of politics, culture and ethnicity from Beijing to Bujumbra which combines high brow and Pop that educated people of colour, funky graduates, journalists, writers and artists will equally enjoy.... ( read more)
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The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology (Folkloristics)
by John Miles Foley
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The Theory of Oral Composition presents a history of the field of oral-formulaic theory. Foley examines the roots of the theory in 19th-century philology and anthropology, documents the contributions of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, measures the effects... ( read more)
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Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics (American Literature)
by Curtis White
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In Monstrous Possibility Curtis White provides a unique collection of essays written in styles ranging from the criti-fictional to the deeply theoretical. These essays are often funny, usually polemical, and always urgent. White creates in these essays a... ( read more)
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The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft & Culture
by Brian Henry
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In-depth interviews with poets have been a popular feature of Versemagazine-and this volume collects many favorites, along with new interviews commissioned for this collection. The poets represent a wide range of aesthetics, ethnicities and politics... ( read more)
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Bloom's Notes) - Study Notes
by Harold Bloom
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-- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work<BR>-- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors... ( read more)
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Seminar of Jacques Lacan #2: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 2
by Jacques Lacan
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A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Socie'te' Francaise de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques... ( read more)
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Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society
by Andrew Ross
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'The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life misses very little of the pop culture landscape, and less still of contemporary environmental debate.' Voice Literary... ( read more)
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Confessions of the Critics: North American Critics' Autobiographical Moves
by Veeser H Aram
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"The Confessions of the Critics shatters a certain silence. Autobiographical criticism has until now skated relatively free from the challenges that usually assail a new literary critical method. It has had this immunity from critique largely because... ( read more)
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Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance
by Kathryn Schwarz
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"If you are content with received views of female constriction under early modern patriarchy, don't read this book! Through the figure of the Amazon, Kathryn Schwarz offers a dazzling, ground-breaking reinterpretation of major canonical authors--Raleigh,... ( read more)
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?
by John Sutherland
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In this quirky and intriguing book, John Sutherland has conveniently gathered together thirty-four nagging little questions, puzzles, errors, and enigmas from some of the best-loved examples of Victorian fiction. Readers often have stumbled upon seeming... ( read more)
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Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin (North Point Pre)
by Richard Davenport-Hines
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Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelatory... ( read more)
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Studies in Poetry: The Visionary
by J M Beach
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In Studies in Poetry, J.M. Beach traces the history of poetry and poetic philosophy in the West. This book will give students a generalized, yet relevantly contemporary definition of poetry, through an in-depth exploration of several poet's major works... ( read more)
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William Empson Against the Christians V2
by John Haffenden
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Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins, this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century. <BR>Against the Christians... ( read more)
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Mirror of the Marvelous: The Classic Surrealist Work on Myth
by Pierre Mabille
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The first English translation of one of the most significant works of the surrealist movement that looks at the great mythic themes as they appear in both classic and modern literature. •Long considered one of the most significant and original books to... ( read more)
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Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience
by Suzanne Nalbantian
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This book is the first to discover and probe in depth memory phenomena captured in literary works. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, Proust to... ( read more)
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The Tongue Snatchers
by Claudine Hermann
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Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of "Les Voleuses de langue" in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity... ( read more)
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Not entitled :a memoir
by Frank Kermode
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A graceful memoir by one of English literature's best-known literary
critics providing an account of his life from childhood on the Isle
of Man, U. K. to his service as lieutenant in the Royal Navy during
WWII, his university years, and many years of... ( read more)
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Toy Medium
by Daniel Tiffany
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A brilliant philosophical, historical, and cultural analysis of artistic, poetic, and scientific attempts to manifest the immaterial and the abstract--clouds, weather, soul, spirit, particle, etc.-- by a highly regarded theorist who is a terrific writer.... ( read more)
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Horace: Poetics and Politics
by V G Kiernan
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Today, more is known about the life and work of the great Latin poet Horace than any other writer of antiquity. In this new study of Horace, one of the formative influences on modern European literature, renowned historian V. G. Kiernan examines the... ( read more)
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