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This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works. · An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. · Weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works. · Focuses especially on Whitman’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
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This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country’s intellectual life more broadly. Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. Introduces debates about how to read this literature. Combines an overview of the evolution of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
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A COMPANION TO ‘TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA Contributors to this volume: Thomas P. Adler, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Annemarie Bean, Deanna M. Toten Beard, Murray Biggs, Stephen J. Bottoms, Mark Evans Bryan, Peter Civetta, Jerry Dickey, Jill Dolan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Mark...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist Comprises...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2008-02-29
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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study rediscovers the lives and notable accomplishments of five prominent, yet historically neglected...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-12-25
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This volume addresses one aspect of a challenging topic: what does it mean for women to create within particular literary and cultural contexts? How is the female body written on textuality? In short, how is the female body analogous to the geographical space of land?...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-11-12
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It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emerson's cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefully?...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-09-07
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Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives. By closely looking at Laurence Sterne's Tristram...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-09-03
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'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.'
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000....
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OUP Oxford
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2007-04-12
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'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.'
Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir,...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-04-05
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'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.'
Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir,...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-04-05
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Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein...
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Oxford University Press
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2006-09-21
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Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 explores the conflicted and conflicting interpretations of Don Quixote available to and deployed by disenchanted writers of America's new republic. It argues that the legacy of Don Quixote provided an ambiguous cultural icon and...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-11-03
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