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Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in the major concerns of American cultural life. Focusing on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-27
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Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-27
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This study argues that Shakespeare can now be understood as part of public culture. Thanks to the emergence of mass education in the twentieth century, Albanese argues that Shakespeare has become a shared property, despite the depiction of his texts as 'elite' cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-27
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Furthering the scholarship on writers and artists as diverse as Lord Byron, Edvard Munch, Sylvia Plath, and Jorge Luis Borges, Zeng probes the semiotics of exile. In artistic traditions the world over, exile exerts a potent and complex mythmaking power - whether it is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-27
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The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-27
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American Literature in Context after 1929American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shapedAmerican literature from the Great Depression onward....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-09-23
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Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-22
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The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-16
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This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-10
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This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-10
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Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873).
The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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'There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them' 'How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue' If you want...
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Summersdale
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2010-09-06
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Postcolonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibilities of Inheritance describes the production of a new and particular kind of postcolonial text and resituates the notion of literary influence in the context of postcolonial literatures. This book addresses the ways...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-09-03
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Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Beginning and ending...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-02
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Dammtor is the old city gate and now the centre of ground transport for the great port of Hamburg. In James Sheard's second collection it is a 'station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light' - a hub for the damaged and deracinated. These...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-02
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For the past four decades, Robert Bringhurst has been writing some of the most powerful poetry in English. Distinguished by engaged and passionate curiosity, a wide-ranging intelligence and true originality, his poetry has sometimes been mistaken as austere and opaque....
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-02
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This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. Utell claims that Joyce uses these relations to imagine a different kind of love, one based in a radical acceptance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-30
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Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-30
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This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role in Britain's transition to an imperial state.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-30
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