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A Companion to the Gothic (Blackwell Companions to Literature & Culture)
by David Punter
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This "Companion" is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of... ( read more)
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Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science #36: Reading Research and Librarianship: A History and Analysis
by Stephen Karetzky
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Dr. Karetzky's study is a conscientious examination of the early years of reading research, covering the period from 1900 to 1939, with its major focus on the work done in the 1930s at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. In that context... ( read more)
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Under open sky :poets on William Cullen Bryant
by Nobert Krapf
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During the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century, William Cullen Bryant was one of America's pre-eminent poets. A man of wide influence and interests, Bryant also achieved renown as editor of the New York Evening Post. At the time of his... ( read more)
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Adultery
by Louise A Desalvo
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Louise DeSalvo risks all, in the company of Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, and Madam Recamier. By filtering the story of her own husband's affair through other's stories, she revels in the always exciting fantasy and tells from the usually... ( read more)
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Painting with Words (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Franco Ricci
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Ricci (Italian, U. of Ottawa, Canada) is a proponent of the word and
image paradigm long popular with literary theorists, who will also be
(along with scholars of Calvino) the audience for this study. Ricci
sets out to show that Calvino's writing... ( read more)
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Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior
by Brooke Allen
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Brooke Allen's sparkling new collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. Ms. Allen shows how the incendiaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, in real terms, far more daring and more... ( read more)
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Eros and the Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI (Early Modern Literature in History)
by Sarah Dunnigan
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Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, this is the first study to link together... ( read more)
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The Autonomy of Literature
by Richard Lansdown
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In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just... ( read more)
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Powers of Distance (01 Edition)
by Anderson
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Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, The Powers of Distance examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. Amanda Anderson... ( read more)
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Austen's Emma (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes
by Thomas J Rountree
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. "CliffsNotes on Emma explores a satiric novel that stabs at manners and social classes, all the while delivering entertainment in a mild... ( read more)
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Early English Metre (Toronto Old English)
by Thomas A Bredehoft
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Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns... ( read more)
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Les Murray (Contemporary World Writers)
by Steven Matthews
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Written in a way that engages academics working in the field and students or general readers new to Murray's poetry, this study offers a striking take on a significant figure in world literature today.... ( read more)
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The Wants of Man: A Poem
by John Quincy Adams
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An ageless and classic poem full of insight and tongue-in-cheek humor, The Wants of Man rings as true today as it was in 1850 when Adams wrote it.... ( read more)
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1001 Jokes
by Peter Eldin
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A collection of gags, giggles, wisecracks and guffaws. From the best jokes to the worst, the gags in this joke book cover all the subjects dear to children's hearts - animals, school, food - and of course, include the timeless "Knock! Knock!" and "What... ( read more)
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Process of Drama
by John O'toole
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An original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context. O'Toole demonstrates how dramatic meaning emerges, shaped by its multiple contexts, and illuminates the importance of all participants to the dramatic process. <BR>This title... ( read more)
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She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
by Janet Gray
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Gray (poet and instructor) rescues from anonymity early women
poets--with the exception of Emily Dickinson--who were eclipsed by
the male, modernist ideal of heroic individualism. With biographies
and criticism, she showcases the historical context as... ( read more)
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Invisible man :notes - Study Notes
by Cliffsnotes
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This novel about a young black man in Harlem reveals the process of self-discovery and emphasizes individuality. Through a difficult passage into manhood, Ellison writes of the alienation of humans in everyday life, yet he remains whole and optimistic.... ( read more)
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Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt
by John Gneisenau Neihardt
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How important were Sioux authors such as Charles Eastman in the opinion of the writer responsible for Black Elk Speaks? What will be the legacy of modern poetry according to the poet behind The Cycle of the West? Knowledge and Opinion offers an... ( read more)
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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie
by Dick Riley
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Over 400,000 copies sold!Articles, photos, and movie posters; witty synopses of all the novels, plays, and short story collections (without revealing whodunit!), Christie's own comments on her work, a Christie mystery map, puzzles, and poems. Includes... ( read more)
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Three Victorian Poets (Cambridge Literature)
by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
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"But who hath seen her wave her hand? Or at the casement seen her stand? Or is she known in all the land, The Lady of Shalott?" Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are the three nineteenth-century poets explored in this... ( read more)
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