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Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey
by Wilson J Moses

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Building upon his previous work and using Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition as a model, Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contradictions in, the thought of five... (read more)

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The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene
by Mavis Haut

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Despite the great diversity of settings in Tanith Lees novels--from the pre-historic origins of Christianity to robot-dominated futurescapes--certain underlying thoughts and references appear consistently. While adhering formally to many of the writing... (read more)

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Henry V (Shakespeare in Performance) Henry V (Shakespeare in Performance)
by James N Loehlin

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This study examines the profound changes that 20th-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern... (read more)

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Bloom's Literary Characters #4: Hester Prynne Bloom's Literary Characters #4: Hester Prynne
by Pamela Loos

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- Examines the most complex and memorable characters in Western literature<BR>- A selection of critical essays provides in-depth analysis of the character considered in each volume<BR>- A concise character profile discusses the character's... (read more)

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Rewriting Scotland: Welsh, McLean, Warner, Banks, Galloway, and Kennedy Rewriting Scotland: Welsh, McLean, Warner, Banks, Galloway, and Kennedy
by Christie L March

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-177) and index.... (read more)

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Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
by Julian Wolfreys

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What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? How can 19th century authors be read to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such... (read more)

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Russia's Legal Fictions Russia's Legal Fictions
by Harriet Murav

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Explores the relationship between law, literature, and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia... (read more)

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Imagine That!: Breaking Through to Other Worlds Imagine That!: Breaking Through to Other Worlds
by Carol S & Robert F Lawson

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A collection of original short stories, essays, poetry, and art that transport the reader to other worlds below, above, and among us.... (read more)

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Fifteenth-century English Dream Visions: an Anthology Fifteenth-century English Dream Visions: an Anthology
by Julia Boffey

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This anthology presents new editions of five English dream vision poems from the fifteenth century, exploring issues of love, philosophy, governance, life at court, and some of the anxieties of writing in a newly-forged English tradition. The texts are... (read more)

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The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions
by Tomiko Narahara

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In this innovative study, Tomiko Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to... (read more)

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Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age
by Emory Elliott

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Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the... (read more)

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Sun Tracks #0029: Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival Sun Tracks #0029: Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival
by Joseph Bruchac

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An unprecedented gathering of more than 300 Native writers was held in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1992. The Returning the Gift Festival brought more Native writers together in one place than at any other time in history. 'Returning the Gift, ' observes co... (read more)

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Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art
by Alastair Fowler

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The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart
by Christopher Smart

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Volume VI of Smart's collected poetry contains the first literary critical edition of his translation of Phaedrus's fables, and the first literary commentary on these fables in English. The editors provide a full introduction, commentary, and scholarly... (read more)

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de Plantas y Animales. Acercamientos Literarios de Plantas y Animales. Acercamientos Literarios
by Ida Vitale

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Estos ensayos, ordenados como capitulos de un peculiar bestiario sin quimeras, rinden emocionado homenaje al mundo natural y al mismo tiempo a la palabra. No son para el impavido que se siente igual debajo de uno tilo en flor que de una adelfa ni para... (read more)

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From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918 From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918
by Faith Berry

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Unfolds a multifaceted literary history of race relations in the United States. This book features narratives on such well-known figures as Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and others.... (read more)

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East German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi (New Perspectives in German Studies) East German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi (New Perspectives in German Studies)
by Paul Cooke

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Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime. However, since unification, Germany... (read more)

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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (Cliffs Notes) Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (Cliffs Notes)
by Marianne Sturman

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Anna Karenina delves into the complex web of relationships in Tolstoy's epic novel. As the... (read more)

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The Three Brontes The Three Brontes
by May Sinclair

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..".because all the best things about the Brontk's have been said already, I have had to fall back on the humble day-labour of clearing away some of the rubbish that has gathered round them."Round Charlotte it has gathered to such an extent that it is... (read more)

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Jane Austen: The Novels (Analysing Texts) Jane Austen: The Novels (Analysing Texts)
by Nicholas Marsh

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Jane Austen's novels--Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion --are among the most polished, carefully crafted works in the English literary heritage. This book takes extracts and examines them in close detail, bringing out the... (read more)

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