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The Art of Literature
by Arthur Schopenhauer
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The great pessimist who believed in the best and expected the worst from writers here applies his caustic wit to literature and the literary scene. Schopenhauer's piercing analyses of style, critics, literary values, learning, and genius make this volume... ( read more)
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High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy
by Henry S Sussman
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At the heart of this important new book is the tension between literacy and the open acknowledgement of discrepancies within social and linguistic fields on the one hand, and what Sussman terms the resolving function, the utopian picture of harmony... ( read more)
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Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism & German Identity (Modern German Culture & Literature)
by Leslie A Adelson
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In West German literature in the 1970s and 1980s bodies functioned not as victims of history nor as allegories for the nation but as sites of contested identities. Focusing on conflicts about identity in present-day Germany and on literary texts in which... ( read more)
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The Faces of Anonymity: Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publication from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
by Robert J Griffin
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This pathbreaking collection of original essays surveys an important but neglected topic: anonymous publication in England from the Elizabethan age to the present. An impressive group of scholars analyzes a wide range of literary phenomena including... ( read more)
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The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970S
by Paul Cobley
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What is the American Thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period—the 1970s. Analyzing '70s texts about crime... ( read more)
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The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books (Newbery & Caldecott Awards)
by American Library Association
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With up-to-date annotations for all the medal and honor books since the inception of the awards (Newbery in 1922 and Caledcott in 1938), librarians and teachers everywhere have come to rely on this indispensable guide for quick-reference, collection and... ( read more)
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Myths and Hero Tales: A Cross-Cultural Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults
by Alethea K Helbig
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This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures... ( read more)
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A Season in Hell the Illuminations
by Arthur Rimbaud
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Written by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century.... ( read more)
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Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography
by Linda Wagner-martin
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Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family, Sylvia Plath: A Biography, and other books.... ( read more)
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Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth: a Routledge Guide
by Janet Beer
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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into... ( read more)
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Feathering Custer
by W S Penn
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The noted Nez Perce fiction writer and critic W. S. Penn turns his wry and penetrating gaze on the state of modern Native life and literature and considers how modern scholarship has affected the ways Natives and others see themselves and their world... ( read more)
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Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home
by Thomas Foster
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Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing makes new connections between feminist criticism of domestic ideology in the 19th century, modernist women's experiments with literary form, contemporary feminist debates about the politics of... ( read more)
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Louis de Bernieres: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature: Captain Corelli's Mandolin/The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts/Seno (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 Louis de Bernieres. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernieres, relating specifically to the texts under discussion... ( read more)
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Pherekydes of Syros
by Hermann Sadun Schibli
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In the sixth century B.C., Pherekydes of Syros, the reputed teacher of Pythagoras and a contemporary of Thales and Anaximander, wrote a book about the birth of the gods and the origin of the cosmos. Considered one of the first prose works of Greek... ( read more)
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Agnes's Final Afternoon: An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera
by Francois Ricard
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Agnès's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnès steps out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self and gives... ( read more)
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The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity
by Daphna Erdinast-vulcan
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Through an examination of short stories spanning Joseph Conrad's entire writing career, Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan engages with the question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism. Part One establishes an original theoretical matrix, which turns... ( read more)
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The Volsung Saga
by And Kessinger Publishing Company Anonymous
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Learn the story behind that whole Ride of the Valkyries.... ( read more)
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A Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500
by Jane Roberts
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To demonstrate the difference between Middle English and Old English,
Roberts (English, U. of London, emeritus) uses illustrations of
literary texts such as Caedmon's Hymn (the earliest extant English
poem), the opening page of King Alfred's first... ( read more)
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Places for Dead Bodies
by Gary J Hausladen
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From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often... ( read more)
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Love: Classics from the Modern Library
by Modern Library
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The Modern Library is happy to present Love, which is the fourth--following Christmas Classics, Mothers, and The Raven and the Monkey's Paw--in its series of reading treasuries. This original collection is dedicated to literary representations of our... ( read more)
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