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Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature (Vintage Living Texts) Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature (Vintage Living Texts)
by Louisa Joyner

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In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide... (read more)

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Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
by Joseph Tabbi

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Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing--the technological sublime.... (read more)

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The Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics, and Culture The Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics, and Culture
by John Lucas

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Studies writers from the 1920s with regard to their political radicalism. Draws on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Patrick Hamilton, among others, to identify the decade as a time of both political activism and... (read more)

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The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases
by Kristin Boudreau

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Examines literary forms reacting to public execution and demonstrates their affect on public attitudes toward capital punishment.... (read more)

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Index of Middle English Prose, #7: The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem Index of Middle English Prose, #7: The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem
by Rosemary Greentree

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This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life.... (read more)

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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
by Francis Spufford

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In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his... (read more)

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Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary
by Jane Garrity

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Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists--Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf--used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects. Reading literary texts through the... (read more)

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The Raymond Chandler Papers : Selected Letters and Non-fiction, 1909-1959 The Raymond Chandler Papers : Selected Letters and Non-fiction, 1909-1959
by Raymond Chandler

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This collection of Chandler's letters, poetry and journalism includes a lost interview with the American gangster Lucky Luciano as well as Chandler's classic account of attending the 1948 Oscars ceremony. It also includes lively anecdotes of Hollywood... (read more)

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Chamber Musicelizabethan Sonnet-Sequen Chamber Musicelizabethan Sonnet-Sequen
by Roger Kuin

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Organised Rather Like The Sonnet-sequences Discussed, In Units Related but not necessarily sequential, Chamber Music does two things at once. First, it presents a fresh and original discussion of the major Elizabethan sonnet-sequences: Sidney's Astrophil... (read more)

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The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction
by Eric J Sundquist

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In The Hammers of Creation, Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Zora Neale Hurston's... (read more)

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African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Representation African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Representation
by Margaret Jordan

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"As a historical legacy, and in the present, servitude remains an ideal macrocosm for examining the racial and class stratification that built this country. Margaret Jordan's brilliant analysis of fictional representations of servitude in the US reminds... (read more)

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What Fantastic Fiction Do I Read Next? 2 What Fantastic Fiction Do I Read Next? 2
by Gale Group

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What Fantastic Fiction Do I Read Next? covers more than 4,800 fantasy, horror and science fiction titles published between 1989 and 1998. It indexes and describes each title's main characters, locale, time period and more.... (read more)

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Coriolanus: A Guide to the Play (Greenwood Guides to Shakespeare) Coriolanus: A Guide to the Play (Greenwood Guides to Shakespeare)
by Mary Steible

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Whether written for Renaissance law students or the popular crowds at the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare's Coriolanus appeals to a wide audience. With thematic consistency, the play presents the class conflict between Roman patricians and plebeians in terms... (read more)

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Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings
by Don Florence

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Challenging mainstream Twain criticism on many fronts, Florence focuses exclusively on Twain's early writings. He demonstrates how Twain evolved in his early narratives into the "Mark Twain" we now recognize. Florence maintains that this process was... (read more)

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Aphra Behn: The Comedies Aphra Behn: The Comedies
by Kate Aughterson

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Aphra Behn: The Comedies provides students with an approachable and fascinating analysis of Behn's dramaturgical abilities, showing particularly how she uses comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends. Kate Aughterson shows how the playwright forces... (read more)

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Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia
by John Mclaren

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A compelling critical and historical account of politics in postwar Australian literary culture.... (read more)

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Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes
by Gustave Flaubert

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. With CliffsNotes on Madame Flaubert, you'll gain insight into Gustave Flaubert's novel that was so scandalous... (read more)

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Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between
by Dale Brown

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Postmodernity has shoved a stick through the spokes of any story that tries to take us somewhere. With postmodern literary theory insistent that a story can mean nothing, serious writers see their seriousness linked to maintaining the position that their... (read more)

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Imagination Under Pressure, 1789-1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility Imagination Under Pressure, 1789-1832: Aesthetics, Politics and Utility
by John C Whale

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Major reassessment of one of the most important topics of the Romantic period - the imagination.... (read more)

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(Mis)Representations; Intersections of Culture and Power. (Mis)Representations; Intersections of Culture and Power.
by Fernando Galv<'a>n Et Al

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Contents: Fernando Galvan/Julio Canero Serrano/Jose Santiago Fernandez vazquez: Cultural Studies and the Politics of (Mis)Representation - Jose Manuel Estevez Saa: Anthropological vs Literary Impulse in the Framework of Cultural Representations - Jurgen... (read more)

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