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A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction
by Robert Adams

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Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from... (read more)

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Pastoral (New Critical Idiom) Pastoral (New Critical Idiom)
by Terry Gifford

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Is the pastoral dead? Gifford adds fuel to the fiery debate in this lively examination of contemporary and classical nature writing. He begins by clarifying the different uses of "pastoral" and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins... (read more)

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Isaac Babel (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers) Isaac Babel (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)
by Mei Chin

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- User's guide - Editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom - Biography of the short story writer - List of characters in each story - Detailed thematic analysis of each short story - Extracts from major critical essays that discuss... (read more)

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Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation
by Jacqueline Pearson

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The first broad overview and detailed analysis of female reading audiences in this period.... (read more)

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Publishing the Family (New Americanists) Publishing the Family (New Americanists)
by June Howard

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"Howard tells an original and carefully reasoned story about the nature of American literary sentimentalism and realism and connects both to changing expectations about gendered identity and experience. In the process, she uses the phenomenon of this... (read more)

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John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany
by Susan Green

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Essays on the most important poet of the 17th century by ten experts on Dryden's prose, poems, and plays, including James A. Winn, Phillip Harth, and Alan Roper.... (read more)

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Scandalizing Jesus: The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years on Scandalizing Jesus: The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years on
by Darren J N Middleton

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This anthology commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Niko Kazantzis' The Last Temptation of Christ by re-assessing the novel in the light of fifty years worth of criticism and reception history.... (read more)

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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
by Paula R Backscheider

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This large-scale project aims to present a broad, original perspective on the writing and lives of eighteenth century (British) women poets. More specifically, it seeks to do so by giving close attention to the intersections of agency-as evident in the... (read more)

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Beowulf: An Imitative Translation Beowulf: An Imitative Translation
by Ruth P Lehmann

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The name Beowulf lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem... (read more)

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The Sound and the Fury (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes The Sound and the Fury (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes
by James L. Roberts

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A difficult but monumental book, The Sound and the Fury describes the thoughts of three brothers and their relationships to their sister and parents. The story begins with what is called the Benjy section (one of the brothers), which is some of the best... (read more)

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Messenger Poems: Kali Dasa, Dhoyi, and Rupa Go+svamin (Clay Sanskrit Library) Messenger Poems: Kali Dasa, Dhoyi, and Rupa Go+svamin (Clay Sanskrit Library)
by And Dhoyi Kalidasa

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"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." —Willis G... (read more)

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Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader
by Brion Gysin

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First anthology of writings of a brilliant avant-garde figure.... (read more)

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The Woman That I Am: the Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color The Woman That I Am: the Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color
by D Soyini Madison

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Selected to represent a diversity of voices, styles, and genres, The Woman That I Am gathers 126 works of contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, and culture criticism by American women of color—African American, Asian American, Latina... (read more)

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Martin Amis: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature (Vintage Living Texts) Martin Amis: 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 Martin Amis. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Martin Amis, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals... (read more)

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Milton and the Terms of Liberty (Studies in Renaissance Literature,) Milton and the Terms of Liberty (Studies in Renaissance Literature,)
by Graham Parry

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In his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his career as a prose writer, prior to embarking on the composition of Paradise Lost, John Milton identified 'three varieties of liberty without which civilized life is scarcely possible... (read more)

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States of Fantasy (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) States of Fantasy (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
by Jacqueline Rose

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In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first nonracial elections. Jacqueline Rose argues here for the importance of these two arenas of historic conflict to the English literary and... (read more)

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Poetical Works Poetical Works
by George Gordon Byron Byron

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Text corrected by: Jump, John;... (read more)

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How to Read Sade (How to Read) How to Read Sade (How to Read)
by John Phillips

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Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. "How to Read" is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most... (read more)

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Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times
by Brooke Allen

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In eighteen essays, Ms. Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. Ms. Allen's appraisals, which combine extensive biographical information with new critical insights, richly illustrate... (read more)

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Breaking Boundaries: A New Generation of Poets in the Gdr (Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs) Breaking Boundaries: A New Generation of Poets in the Gdr (Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs)
by Karen Leeder

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This book is a critical study of the younger generation of poets who were "born into" the established socialist state of the former East Germany. It explores the ways in which these poets have broken the literary and political boundaries that were... (read more)

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