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Edgar Allan Poe, Complete CollectionEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story,...
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Conversations with Joan DidionJoan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure...
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An AnthologySpanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context....
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian LiteratureWeaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of Mesoamerican writings, Diné...
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The Writing of Middle Earth: How to write the script of the Holbbits, Dwarves and Elves.The Writing of Middle Earth will introduce you to the fascinating Hobbit and dwarfish runes and to the mysterious Tengwar script of the elves of JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. You will learn how to decipher inscriptions on Thror's Map, Durin's Door and the One...
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Reflections on BiographyReflections on Biography is intended for all readers of biography--lifelong or occasional, critical or casual--and is written by an award-winning biographer, Paula R. Backscheider. The author examines biography from many angles and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and some of the...
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States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth CenturyIn an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of...
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Troilus and Cressida: Third SeriesA revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a problem play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan...
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The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary CanonIn this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential...
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Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus - solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins...
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The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval FragmentThe discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.Beginning with an...
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Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of MourningDeeply versed in recent theoretical discussions of the lyric form in general and the elegy in particular, Adele Bardazzi also brings to bear queer thinking on temporarily and philosophical treatments of mourning to shift the understanding of Montale's verse, contesting the division between an...
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Yeats and Revisionism: A Half Century of the Dancer and the DanceThe books collects Daniel T. O'Hara's half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim...
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Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, ArchivesThe most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the Oscar Wilde and His Circle archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials relating to the life and...
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Belinda's PetitionAuthor: Raymond A. WinbushPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 76Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18dISBN: 9781441514431This title is not returnable
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Borges, Between History and EternityThat Borges is one of the key figures in 20th-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role...
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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesIn such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for...
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English Lit 101: From Jane Austen to George Orwell and the Enlightenment to Realism, an Essential Guide to Britain's Greatest Writers aA guide to the greats in British literature From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce...
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GuiltyGuilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording the earliest days of World War Two and the Nazi occupation of France, but this...
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The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of RaceHow did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era?Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies AssociationWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well...
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