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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
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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
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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
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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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Nel primo Ottocento italiano, romantico ma al contempo ambiguo e dotato di una specificità propria nazionale, Giovanni Berchet spicca fra i letterati suoi contemporanei. Milanese, Berchet dimostrò profonda sensibilità artistica, coniugandola con un fervido e...
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Cactus
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2025-02-25
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La prima edizione delle “Prose della volgar lingua” di Pietro Bembo apparve a Venezia nel 1525. Il trattato fu sin da subito decisivo per la cultura italiana, che vi trovò la certezza di una codificazione dell’italiano come lingua letteraria. Una soluzione della...
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Cactus
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2025-01-25
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Opera-mostro, iperlibro che comprende ed espande mondi interi, lo Zibaldone è un'opera unica. Uno smisurato «scartafaccio», come lo definiva Leopardi stesso, costruito con tecniche differenti nell'arco di quindici anni, dal 1817 al 1832, secondo un progetto in continua...
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Cactus
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2025-01-17
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I Canti di Leopardi si sviluppano come il racconto poetico della storia del pensiero dell'autore, che non smette mai di interrogare il senso dell’esistenza degli uomini e delle cose, ma trova risposte via via diverse nei diversi momenti del suo sviluppo. Dalla lettura...
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Cactus
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2025-01-17
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Opera poetica e, in tal modo, anche morale, le "Operette" leopardiane sono un magma letterario al contempo cristallino e indecifrabile. Assommano nelle stesse pagine teatro filosofico e narrazione fantastica, trattato sull'infelicità totale e leggera ironia, forse a...
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Cactus
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2025-01-17
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Antonia Pozzi ha vissuto vette e abissi, è stata capace di gioie enormi e di dolori profondi, sempre riuscendo a dar loro forma con l'utilizzo di tutte le sfumature della parola e dell'animo. Emotiva eppure forte,Antonia infonde nei propri versi una sensibilità che...
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Cactus
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2024-08-17
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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...
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The Classics
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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...
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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...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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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
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2010-10-30
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