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This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-16
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Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary...
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Springer
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2010-06-16
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X.media.publishing
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS
General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-11
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This book places major literary works within the context of the topics that engaged a great number of American writers in the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual re-enslavement of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-06-10
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This study of the literary culture in Britain in the years after Waterloo begins with an account of two fatal duels, the famous duel of 16 February 1821, in which John Scott, editor of the London Magazine, fell, and the less well known duel of 26 March 1822, in which...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-10
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS
General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-10
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Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-06-01
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What does modern British and Irish literature have to do with French impressionist painting? And what does Henry James have to do with the legal dispute between John Ruskin and J.M.W. Whistler?What links Walter Pater with Conrad's portrait of a genocidal maniac in Heart...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-06-01
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How should we understand Victorian conflict? The Victorians were divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literature of the period and these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-28
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Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-28
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At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-26
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Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-25
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Gothic Romanticism, winner of the 2010 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, is a study of the relationship between British Romanticism and theGothic Revival. Reading a wide range of canonical and raretexts, and spanning the Romantic discourses of architecture, politics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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Against a historical backdrop that includes eighteenth-century language theory, children's literature and education, debates on the French Revolution, Biblical interpretation, and print culture, Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation breaks new ground in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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African-American expressive arts draw upon multiple traditions of formal experimentation in the service of social change. Within these traditions, Jennifer D. Ryan demonstrates that black women have created literature, music, and political statements signifying some of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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The book offers a socio-critical analysis of the alcoholic perception in the poetry and fiction of modern American alcoholic writers. Matts Djos focuses on primary indicators of alcohol addiction (fear, manipulation, anger, loneliness, and antic-social behavior) and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest (2007) - to examine, for the first time in a full volume, Mailer s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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Henry James Narrative Technique situatesHenry James famous method within an emerging modernist tradition with roots in philosophical debates between rationalism and empiricism. This cogent study considers James works in the context of nineteenth-century thought on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language.The familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are all included, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-21
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