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Shakespeare and Politics
by Catherine M S Alexander
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Selection of sixteen provocative and stimulating essays on the complex subject of Shakespeare and politics.... ( read more)
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A.E. Van Vogt: Science Fantasy's Icon
by H. L Drake
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"Science Fantasy's Icon" presents the results of a nearly three-decades long project about the late "golden age" science fantasy author, A.E. Van Vogt. This book emphasizes an interest that H.L. Drake and Van Vogt shared in the subject of general... ( read more)
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Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors
by Mark Seinfelt
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Incorporates historical, biographical, and psychological examinations of some of the greatest authors over the last century who decided to end their lives. Seinfelt, a writer living in Pennsylvania, begins with the suicide of Constance Woolson in 1894... ( read more)
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English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
by Rachel Polonsky
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The first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism.... ( read more)
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Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Imelda Whelehan
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This is an excellent guide to Helen Fieldings genre-defining novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youre studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to... ( read more)
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Registering the Difference
by Lance St John Butler
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The concept of register is a wonderful tool for readers of all kinds of texts, especially literary ones. This book explains how register can be used without resorting to the full panoply of linguistic jargon. Readers at all levels often shy away from... ( read more)
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Cabinet 15: The Average Issue
by Eva Geulen
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Coined by the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet in 1835, the term "average man" evokes both contentment and anxiety. In some sense an inverted history of the genius, the story of the average has had a formative influence on modern aesthetics... ( read more)
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A Cage Without Bars
by Ibrahim Yared
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The small boy was trying to climb over the wall surrounding the labyrinth that he wanted to leave, when he heard the elderly people back home shouting and telling him to go back to bed. His grip on the wall loosened and he fell to the ground waking up... ( read more)
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Breakfast Served Any Time All Day
by Donald Hall
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". . . the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, strange, and unified. Hall has been around a long time, and you can trace the concerns of a generation through the mind of this one man: questions about the diminished scope of poetry, the... ( read more)
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Mania and Literary Style (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature & Thought)
by Clement Hawes
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This study analyzes ???enthusiastic??? writing from the Ranters to Swift, and explores madness and sanity in literature.... ( read more)
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Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 (Blackwell Anthologies)
by Jon Cook
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Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry.... ( read more)
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The Book Lover's Tour of Texas
by Jessie Gunn Stephens
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This book takes readers on a literary ride across the Lone Star State. J. Frank Dobie tells true stories of rattlesnakes and buried treasure, Jodi Thomas finds romance in the oilfields.... ( read more)
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Conventional Functions of Black English in American Literature
by Richard O Lewis
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A stimulating contribution to the present debate over bilingualism and education, Richard Lewis' study provides a thorough analysis of the components and structure of Black English and its paradoxical position as a vernacular in today's culture and... ( read more)
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Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
by Helen Barr
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Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early... ( read more)
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Reading New York
by John Tytell
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.... ( read more)
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Early Modern Metaphysical Literature: Nature, Custom and Strange Desires
by Michael Holmes
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Early Modern Metaphysical Literature illuminates now-obscured aspects of cultural negotiation and denaturalization germane to numerous Metaphysical texts. Examining poetry and prose by Donne, Marvell, Lanyer, Crashaw, and Edward Herbert, this book... ( read more)
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Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature (Vintage Living Texts)
by Margaret Reynolds
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In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Roddy Doyle. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Roddy Doyle, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals... ( read more)
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The Real History behind "The Da Vinci Code"
by Sharan Newman
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Millions have been enthralled by The Da Vinci Code's fascinating historical speculations-and the blockbuster novel's audience has also made bestsellers of several books offering to separate the facts from the fiction.
This comprehensive, encyclopedic... ( read more)
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Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
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This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the... ( read more)
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Library of Classic Children's Literature
by Courage Books
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Presents some of the classics of children's literature, including "Black Beauty," "The Secret Garden," and "Anne of Green Gables.".... ( read more)
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