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Henry Constable: The Complete PoemsElizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, is a fascinating case study in how religious and political preoccupations could drive the learned across the unstable confessional divide. He threw over an early career of government service to work towards the return of...
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Engaging Ambience: Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical TheoryEngaging Ambience is an in-depth exploration of contemporary rhetorical theory, drawing from rich traditions of visual and sensory research. It is the first book to develop comprehensive empirical approaches to ambient rhetoric and the first to offer systematic approaches to visual research in studies...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete CorrespondenceI sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a...
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Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries--a period of vast economic change--recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores...
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28"Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are." --Fran Lebowitz When Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, in 1927, she was...
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Characters Of Shakespeare'S Plays"Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" is a collection of essays written by the English literary critic and essayist, William Hazlitt. The book is a critical analysis of the characters in the plays of William Shakespeare, one of the most celebrated playwrights of all time. In...
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Bigger: A Literary LifeA biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects...
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BeowulfIn Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our...
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Balzac's Paris: The City as Human ComedyExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is...
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Amsterdam TalesPaul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs, and anecdotes centering on Amsterdam from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century, which gives unique insight into the history and culture of the city. The tales within range from Rembrandt to the Jewish...
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Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the ChurchHave you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem? Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusing, or simply "not for us." In these joyful and...
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Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance ItalyThe first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.Author: Brian RichardsonPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 298Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62dISBN: 9781108702539This title is not returnable
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon YearInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England. Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the...
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To After That (Toaf)A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time. Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing--somewhere between criticism and memoir...
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Three Renaissance Travel PlaysThis volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion...
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A MemoirA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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The Playboy of the Western World--A New Version: A Critical EditionBisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle's centenary adaption of J. M. Synge's classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2008. The new version...
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and RacePremodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon...
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The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the ManuscriptAuthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55dISBN: 9781108445559Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.3Point Value: 8Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 708 / Great GatsbyThis title is not returnable
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The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007-2017The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume 2 features...
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