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In this set of thorough and revisionary readings of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known writings in verse and prose, Hogle argues that the logic and style in all these works are governed by a movement in every thought, memory, image, or word-pattern whereby each is seen...
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Oxford University Press
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1989-01-12
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Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored. In the first literary history to focus specifically on the year 1837-1838, Richard L. Stein examines a wide variety of cultural...
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Oxford University Press
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1988-03-31
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Informed by a writer's view of how a writer works, this perceptive study illuminates the careers of two major figures of twentieth-century literature, T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. Sultan engages in a unique form of historical criticism, blending a literary history of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1987-12-31
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Helena Michie's provocative new work looks at how women's bodies are portrayed in a variety of Victorian literary and non-literary genres--from painting, poems, and novels, to etiquette, books, sex manuals, and pornography. After identifying a series of codes and taboos...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1987-03-12
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The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech.The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1987-03-05
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Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to...
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Oxford University Press
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1987-01-08
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This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!
The Comedies
A Midsummer Night's Dream
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Love’s Labour ’s Lost
Measure for...
Editeur :
Hash Books
Parution :
2019-01-29
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This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.
- The Pickwick Papers
- Oliver Twist
- Nicholas Nickleby
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Barnaby Rudge
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Dombey and Son
- David...
Editeur :
The Classics
Parution :
2019-01-08
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This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.
- The Pickwick Papers
- Oliver Twist
- Nicholas Nickleby
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Barnaby Rudge
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Dombey and Son
- David...
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ACC
Parution :
2018-06-15
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This volume collects the complete novels of Henry James (in the chronological order of their original publication):
- Watch and Ward
- Roderick Hudson
- The American
- The Europeans
- Confidence
- Washington Square
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Bostonians
- The...
Editeur :
KTHTK
Parution :
2017-11-01
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The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] ... imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1986-12-20
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