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Writing the Apocalypse
This is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora...
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Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe
This exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation...
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The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France
This study explores the problems faced by writers of the Enlightenment, who attempted to demystify all previous forms of knowledge by applying...
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Representative Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dictum - ‘The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language’ - belongs to a long tradition of writing...
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Diverging Pathways
Diverging Pathways follows the careers of a British birth cohort into early adulthood, presenting a detailed picture of the family backgrounds and...
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The Adaptive Decision Maker
The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows...
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Decisions with Multiple Objectives
Many of the complex problems faced by decision makers involve multiple conflicting objectives. This book describes how a confused decision maker, who...
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The Adaptive Decision Maker
The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows...
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Language and Self-Transformation
Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their...
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Handbook of Bereavement
The Handbook of Bereavement constitutes a comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death....
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Handbook of Bereavement
The Handbook of Bereavement constitutes a comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death....
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Human Cognitive Abilities
This long awaited work surveys and summarizes the results of more than seventy years of investigation, by factor analysis, of a variety of cognitive...
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Social Facilitation
Humans may run faster, read less, or type more quickly, simply because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects the behaviour of...
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Affect and Accuracy in Recall
Recollections of unexpected and emotional events (called flashbulb memories) have long been the subject of theoretical speculation. Previous meetings...
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Interaction in Cooperative Groups
Interaction in Cooperative Groups brings together current, related research from education, developmental psychology, and social psychology in an...
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Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy
This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and...
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Gulliver’s Travels
This new critical introduction to Gulliver’s Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It characterises the...
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The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The...
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Redeeming the Text
This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the...
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The Arts of Love
This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the...
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The Epic Successors of Virgil
This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius...
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Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity...
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