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Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interviews
by Sharon Monteith
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Many people think that ethnocultural politics in Canada are spiraling out of control, with ever more groups making ever greater demands. This book offers a more balanced picture. We have learned important lessons about how to accommodate ethnocultural... ( read more)
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Twayne's World Authors #860: Helene Cixous
by Lynn Penrod
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Helene Cixous has been one of the leading French feminist theoreticians and writers for the past 30 years. This study covers Cixous' work from the 1960s to the present, and in all of the genres in which she has worked - essay, fiction, and theatre... ( read more)
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Shakespeare and Language
by Catherine M S Alexander
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Selection of the best essays from the last forty years on Shakespeare??'s use of language.... ( read more)
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With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger
by Kip Kotzen
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KIP KOTZEN is a literary agent who divides his time between Los Angeles and New York. THOMAS BELLER is the author of two works of fiction (Seduction Theory, stories; The Sleep-Over Artist, a novel) and a founding editor of Open City magazine and... ( read more)
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The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience: Popular Culture as Market Derived Art
by Alf H Walle
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Elements of popular culture (such as literature and films) are major industries. If scholars are to fully understand how popular culture evolves and functions, techniques for dealing with the impact of business need to be factored into the analysis. The... ( read more)
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Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890S
by Emma Sutton
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This volume is an interdisciplinary study of the influence of the operas, writing, and personality of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). In exploring Beardsley's often iconoclastic versions--or perversions--of Wagner... ( read more)
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Life as I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities
by Charles Neider
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Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection of 94 little-known tales, essays, sketches and other polemics, including the suppressed chapter of Life on the Mississippi, the omitted chapter of The Prince and the... ( read more)
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The Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions
by Piero Boitani
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.... ( read more)
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Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714
by Bridget Orr
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Analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.... ( read more)
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Contributions to the Study of World Literature #113: Children's Literature and the Fin de Siecle
by Roderick Mcgillis
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The close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a sense of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. This volume examines fin de siecle tensions in 19th- and 20th-century children's... ( read more)
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Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life & Writings (Literary A to Z)
by Dawn B Sova
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"Agatha Christie A to Z" contains over 2,500 entries that cover all aspects of the Christie phenomenon, including relationships with friends, relatives, and associates, and chapter-by-chapter plot synposes to all her mystery stories (omitting solutions... ( read more)
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Some Religious Elements in English Literature
by Rose Macaulay
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What the author has tried to do in this book is to select from out of the mass of material a few specimens, as who, randomly diving into an ocean, should return with a handful or two of seaweed or of pebbles, and to proceed to make thereon a scattered... ( read more)
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Ian McEwan: The Essential Guide: The Child in Time, Enduring Love, Atonement (Vintage Living Texts)
by Margaret Reynolds
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This guide deals with McEwan's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts is accompanied by likely exam questions — as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.... ( read more)
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Gwendolyn Brooks (Modern Critical Views) - Study Notes
by Harold Bloom
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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights<BR>-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary... ( read more)
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Gender and Language in Chaucer
by Catherine S Cox
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Catherine S. Cox considers the significance of gender in relation to language and poetics in Chaucer's writing. Examining selections from "The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women" and the ballades, she explores Chaucer's... ( read more)
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New Essays on Billy Budd (American Novel)
by Donald Yannella
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Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most popular work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to this major... ( read more)
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Thomas Hardy (Analysing Texts)
by Norman Page
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This book provides models for close analysis of Hardy, with particular focus on Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. Part one focuses on major themes and key passages, while part two... ( read more)
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Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature
by Paul Cefalu
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Paul Cefalu explores the relationship between ethical character and religious conversion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature.... ( read more)
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Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority (Suny Series, Psychoanalysis & Culture)
by Teddi Chichester Bonca
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Shelley's Mirrors of Love confronts the myths and realities of Shelleyan narcissism and discovers an artist fiercely engaged with problems of (gender) identity, self-idolatry, and the nature of love itself. Rather than capitulating to what he called "the... ( read more)
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German Romantic Literary Theory (Studies in Rationality and Social Change)
by Ernst Behler
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The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. A view of the literary work and the artistic process developed that diverged sharply from the dominant classicist... ( read more)
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