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The Poethical Wager
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In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life ... [Read more]
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Northrop Frye
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An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ensured his place at the cen... [Read more]
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Ben Jonson
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This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays. [Read more]
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Julia Kristeva 1966-96
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In June 1996, the Centre for Cultural Studies hosted a conference entitled Aesthetics. Politics. Ethics: Julia Kristeva 196696. It was held at the Leeds City Art Gallery wh... [Read more]
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Textual Practice. Number 3
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This collection of essays examine textual practice and focus on such subjects as literary theory and the modernization of language. [Read more]
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Textual Practice. Volume 8 Number 3
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Since its launch in 1987 Textual Practice has established itself as a leading journal of radical literary theory. [Read more]
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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama
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This Blackwell Guide provides a broad-ranging introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth to the third century bc. All three ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's King Lear
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In this tragic play, Lear, a ruler in pre-Christian Britain, is described as a 'very foolish old man, fourscore and upward.' Grossly misjudging his daughters, he endures a ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Miller's The Crucible
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Explore Arthur Miller's superior play about good and evil, self-identity and morality by looking into Boost your insight (and impress your teachers as a result!) by using t... [Read more]
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Cliffs Complete: Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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With a gift for irony, the limerick, and an understanding of children, Lewis Carroll set out to write a book of fantastic entertainment. The story has nothing didactic abou... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
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Widely regarded as one of the best poets of the United States, Dickinson is considered a poetic genius. This survey of 85 of her poems covers an immense array of topics and... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Swift's Gulliver's Travels
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This concise supplement to Swift's Gulliver's Travels helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the socia... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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At once a tragic love story pitting a fragile heart against the forces of society, this novel truly succeeds as a conversation of ideas. The long book is very readable, and... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Wordsworth's The Prelude
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This concise supplement to William Wordsworth's The Prelude helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Plath's The Bell Jar
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This first-person narrative of a young woman with an existential mental problem struggling toward adulthood is often seen as Ms. Plath's autobiography. It is a delicate plu... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
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The national bestseller A Yellow Raft In Blue Water is a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably jo... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth
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This concise supplement to Ole Edvart Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Ellison's Invisible Man
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This novel about a young black man in Harlem reveals the process of self-discovery and emphasizes individuality. Through a difficult passage into manhood, Ellison writes of... [Read more]
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Cliffs Complete: Shakespeare's Hamlet
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The CliffsComplete Hamlet is a revised and expanded study edition. It contains Shakespeare's original play, a glossary, and expert commentary in a unique, 2-column format. ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Bronte's Jane Eyre
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This novel echoes the romantic conventions of the Victorian era at the same time that it recounts many incidents of Bronte's own life. The character of Jane, a young govern... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Heilbroner The Worldly Philosophers
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Heilbroner's book gives a simple but comprehensive explanation of the ideas of the Great Economists. Translated into more than 20 languages, it is an excellent overview of ... [Read more]
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Shakespeare and Republicanism
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In this groundbreaking work, leading scholar of the Renaissance Andrew Hadfield reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost and The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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In this fast-paced farce, Comedy of Errors the plot and characters become tangled up in confusion until the grand unraveling in the last scene. Mistaken identities and misf... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Malcolm X's Autobiography of Malcolm X
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This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim mo... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
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A rollicking good yarn of adventure, wits, and revenge, this is the story of a man imprisoned for 14 years who escapes by outsmarting his captors. Then, with the sharpest o... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: West's Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
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This concise supplement to Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust helps students understand the overall structure of the works, actions and motivation... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Miller's Death of a Salesman
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Miller's most famous play, it is the story of the American Dream gone awry when a small man is destroyed by society's false values. Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer Pri... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston's Farewell to Manazanar
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The U.S. government's internment of 120, 000 Asian Americans in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 is a thorny era that many Americans have chosen to ignore. F... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Graham Greene's: The Power and the Glory
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This Christian parable is a compelling and enlightening read. It tells the story of a 'whisky priest' in Mexico, who is on the lam. Although a self-confessed imperfect man,... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Hardy's story dramatizes the human condition as a struggle between powerful men and against fate. (Fate usually wins!) In this tale, violent natural and social forces toss ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Morrison's The Bluest Eye & Sula
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Ms. Morrison's first book, The Bluest Eye , tells the painful story of a 1940s black woman who obsesses over her desire to become white. Her futile longing for the 'bluest ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
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This is the Nobel Prize-winning author's powerful story of an old man who conquers a magnificent fish, endures its heartbreaking loss, and rises gallantly above his defeat.... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Fielding's Tom Jones
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It was Fielding's wish to make readers laugh themselves out of their folly and vice with this novel. He is a moralist, but without indignation. Tom Jones is a funny tale of... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Nordhoff's Mutiny On The Bounty
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This concise supplement to Charles Nordhoff's Mutiny on the Bounty helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, a... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Morrison's Song of Solomon
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Song of Solomon explores the quest for cultural identity through an African American folktale about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by fleeing back to Africa. The nove... [Read more]
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Cliffs Complete: Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 1
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The CliffsComplete King Henry IV, Part 1, is a revised and expanded study edition. It contains Shakespeare's original play, a glossary, and expert commentary in a unique, 2... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Ibsen's Ghosts, An Enemy of the People & The Wild Duck
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Ibsen's plays are wide open to interpretation, yet his absurd expression of human analysis stimulates and enlightens. This CliffsNotes guide is an basis for critical dialog... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Franklin's Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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One of America's foremost minds -- and wits -- writing in the 18th century was Benjamin Franklin. He helped write the US Constitution, he was an inventor, statesman, and sc... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Wright's Black Boy
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Black Boy , an autobiography of the author's boyhood, explores the theory of human behavior determined by environment. Richard Wright's novel is profoundly American by bein... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Byron's Don Juan
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Don Juan is a rambling, unfinished, and vast literary creation that succeeds as an epic carnival. The story of the legendary lover's travels and romantic escapades has scop... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
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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 ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Keats & Shelley
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John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley belong to the second generation of Romantic poets. The Romantics focused on themselves and nature, as opposed to society and universal a... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Melville's Billy Budd & Typee
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Forty years separate the writing of these books, and Melville's moral concerns are highly visible in Billy Budd, in which a young sailor willingly accepts his punishment af... [Read more]
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Humanism
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A clear account of the major issues and debates, from classical to modern literature and drama. Key names discussed in this wide-ranging survey include Nietzsche, Heidegger... [Read more]
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Interdisciplinarity
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This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplines, then reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines have come to seem irr... [Read more]
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Greek Tragedy
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Neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism, this classic text not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyse... [Read more]
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Massinger
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Looks at the critical reception to this Jacobean playwright from the early 17th to the late 19th century. Includes extensive selections from Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Ha... [Read more]
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Presence of the Past
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This book studies the interaction of heritage and fiction written for children over a forty year period in Britain. Examples range from new interactive displays in museums ... [Read more]
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Sidney
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enab... [Read more]
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Postcolonial Exotic
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Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods... [Read more]
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Greek and Roman Slavery
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In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. [Read more]
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Discourses of Difference
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Unravels the complexities of writings by British women of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers, extending recent post-colo... [Read more]
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English Novel in History 1895-1920
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Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, The English Novel in History provides the most comprehensive introduction yet written to ear... [Read more]
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Ben Jonson
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enab... [Read more]
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enab... [Read more]
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Classical Mythology in English Literature
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Brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths, allowing students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers ... [Read more]
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Alexander Pope
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large obody of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, ena... [Read more]
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Imperialism and Theatre
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A ground-breaking collection that explores how and why theatre was used in imperial societies to articulate the concerns of both colonizers and colonized. Covers many and d... [Read more]
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This Female Man of God
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Takes a valuable and timely look at the contribution of women to the newly legitimate Christian Church. Examples include women who passed themselves off as men in order to ... [Read more]
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Ending of Roman Britain
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This book explains what Britain was like in the fourth century AD and how this can only be understood in the wider context of the western Roman Empire. [Read more]
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Algernon Swinburne
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enab... [Read more]
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Principles of Literary Criticism
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Reissue of this classic work in the development of modern criticism which argues that literary criticism is essentially a branch of psychology, dealing with the states of m... [Read more]
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Handbook of Greek Mythology
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In this new and substantially revised edition of H. J. Rose's classic survey and analysis of the evolution and tradition of Greek myth, Robin Hard adds various features whi... [Read more]
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Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry
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Argues that Tennyson's war poems reflect image patterns of the Iliad and the Aeneid , and reinvigorate the heroic ethos that informs these and other ancient texts. [Read more]
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Figures of Finance Capitalism
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Focusing on a group of mid-Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers, this book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the social imagination of the m... [Read more]
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Is Shakespeare Dead?
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Did Francis Bacon write the works of Shakespear? The Shakespearite knows that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's Works; the Baconian knows that Francis Bacon wrote them; the B... [Read more]
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Writing Across Worlds
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In 1984 the magazine Wasafiri was founded to promote multicultural writers work. To celebrate its' twentieth anniversary, this brings together a some of the interviews with... [Read more]
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening
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Providing all the tools for engaged, informed individual analysis of the text, this is an essential starting point for students of American literature and women's writing, ... [Read more]
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Culture and the Real
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What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is ... [Read more]
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Drama/Theatre/Performance
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This text explores the concept of these related terms and considers the complex relationship that exists between all three. This useful guidebook is an essential read for a... [Read more]
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Edward Albee
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A collection of essays on Albee's work, including new studies of well-known plays, discussions of lesser-known dramas, an interview with the playwright, a chronology and a ... [Read more]
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In the Shadows of Divine Perfection
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This book provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and pra... [Read more]
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Author
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This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. [Read more]
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Prestige, Authority and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
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Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of these three terms for the study of late-medieval manuscripts and texts? This collection of essays, by leading sch... [Read more]
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Author's Pen and Actor's Voice
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Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or 'playing', in Shakespeare's theatre and offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabeth... [Read more]
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Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory
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Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Arguing that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of Irish modernist writing, Mil... [Read more]
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Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose
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This ambitious study sheds new light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation bet... [Read more]
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Octavia
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The historical tragedy Octauia focuses on Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia and subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. The book includes a full length introduction, ... [Read more]
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Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War
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Cole examines the rich history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. She foregrounds such crucial themes as broken friendships, blood brotherhood, and the bereave... [Read more]
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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
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At the time of the Irish Famine, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, and commentaries on the famine, introduced a new theory of individual expression, which gradually replaced t... [Read more]
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Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
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April London investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. Her wide-ranging study di... [Read more]
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Henry James and the Father Question
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The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement ... [Read more]
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The American Puritan Elegy
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Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by neglect in ours. Hamm... [Read more]
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Modernism and Eugenics
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Donald Childs shows how Woolf, Eliot, and Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language of the modern i... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: The 1990s Newbery Medal Winners
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The Newbery Medal is awarded each year to the most distinguished contribution to children's literature published in the U.S. This CliffsNotes covers each of the 10 selectio... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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As the protagonist of a fanciful, delightful story that can be read either as pure entertainment or for social criticism, Twain's Yankee is a simple American folk character... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Euripides' Electra and Medea
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The usual suspects of ancient Greek drama are the protagonists in these famous plays: Electra, Orestes, and Agamemnon. These tragedies were the plays that formed the basis ... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Science Fiction
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In addition to an analysis of the science fiction genre as a whole, this CliffsNotes volume includes the following novels: 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (187... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Kelley's A Different Drummer
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This concise supplement to William Melvin Kelley's A Different Drummer helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characte... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped
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These novels of pirates on the high seas and intrigue in the Scottish highlands were written on a challenge by Stevenson's teenage stepson to 'write something really intere... [Read more]
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Cliffs Notes: Plato's Republic
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Considered to be one of the three greatest philosophical tomes of all time, The Republic is Plato's account and interpretation of Socrates's ideas about life, meaning, and ... [Read more]
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The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal
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Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely ... [Read more]
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New Sites For Shakespeare
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In his latest book, the author considers current Shakespearian productions in Europe and America, in the light of his insights into Asian theatre, arguing that our understa... [Read more]
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Geoffrey Hartman
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Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not he `represents the future of the profession', is... [Read more]
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Empire's Children
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This book places classic British children's fictional texts into the cultural context of imperial Britain from 1895 to c1945. Authors include Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgs... [Read more]
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Reading Epic
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This survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the developmen... [Read more]
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Victorian Poetry
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Victorian Poetry constitutes a landmark in the appreciation and understanding of the genre by one of the foremost scholars of the period. Isobel Armstrong re-evaluates Vict... [Read more]
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Lyrical Ballads
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A comprehensively revised classic with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together - the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Ro... [Read more]
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Being in Time
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Lloyd's book is a provocative essay on the fragmen tation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, conscious ness changes as time pass... [Read more]
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Foucault and Literature
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Offering a critique of Foucault and the literary studies that have been influenced by him, Simon During takes in Foucault's studies of `transgressive' writing from Sade and... [Read more]
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