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The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early...
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Religion, Culture and Mental Health
Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express...
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Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope
Athapaskan languages are well known for their intricate morphology, in particular the complexity of their verbs. The significance of these languages...
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Interaction in Poetic Imagery
This is an unusual and original contribution to literary theory. Michael Silk is a classicist, but his book is concerned not only with the literature...
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671
Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European...
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Remaking American Theater
An account of contemporary theater practice in its most collaborative and dynamic form, this is the first book-length study of two of the most...
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The Frontal Lobes
The frontal lobes and their functional properties are recognised as crucial to establishing our identity as autonomous human beings. This book...
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The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth
This book deals with the question of how children exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth learn to speak those two languages. After a...
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Caesar’s Legacy
In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar\'s...
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and...
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum U.S. culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink...
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Images of Community in Old English Poetry
This book explores ideas of community and the relationship of individuals to communities widely evident in Old English poetry. It pays particular...
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The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra
Many clinicians and researchers are convinced that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international...
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Conditionals and Prediction
This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional...
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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of...
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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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The Making of Racial Sentiment
The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine ‘race’ for an emerging national culture....
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The Textuality of Old English Poetry
This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work...
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The Child’s World of Illness
How do I decide I am ill; how do I decide that my children are ill? How do I learn effective ways of conveying to others that I am ill? This book...
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Possession
In this new work, Bernd Heine claims that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible...
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Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
How the Romans came to have a literature, how that literature reflected native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent...
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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and...
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Early American Women Critics
Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political, and cultural - enabled women to enter the human...
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Archbishop Theodore
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668–90), was a monk of Greek origin and extraordinary learning, who shaped the English Church into a structure...
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