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Contemporary American Playwrights
Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum...
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Pataphysics
'Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by Alfred Jarry, has so far, because of its academic frivolity and hermetic perversity, attracted very...
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Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism
The relationships between modernity and modernism, modernism and the historical avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism, and postmodernism and the...
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Future Crossings
Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers--Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and...
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After Nihilism
In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel...
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Metaphor and Emotion
This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent ‘constructed’ from...
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Stepping into Shakespeare
Invaluable support for all teachers of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and institutions of higher education.
Stepping into Shakespeare provides a...
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature....
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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge...
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Shakespeare and Race
This volume draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare’s drama. The authors, who themselves reflect racial and...
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Poe and the Printed Word
Edgar Allan Poe continues to be a fascinating literary figure to students and scholars alike. Increasingly the focus of study pushes beyond the...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës,...
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Locations of Literary Modernism
In this collection, an international team of contributors contest the conventional critical view of modernism as a transnational or supranational...
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American Slaves in Victorian England
Audrey Fisch’s study examines the circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign. During the 1850s,...
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An Introduction to Arabic Literature
Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the...
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Classical Arabic Biography
Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the...
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Shakespeare on Masculinity
Masculinity was a political issue in early modern England. Phrases such as courage-masculine or manly virtue took on a special meaning and signified...
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Shakespeare’s Ovid
Ovid’s great poem, Metamorphoses, was a source of life long fascination and inspiration for Shakespeare. He drew on its great myths throughout his...
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Greek Theatre Performance
In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays...
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Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
One of the most important plays of the twentieth century, A Streetcar Named Desire revolutionised the modern stage. This book offers the first...
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary...
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The Spirit of Poesy
A testament to the "spirit of poesy" that informs the life and work of Geza von Molnar, this volume of essays comes together around his...
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The American Puritan Elegy
Jeffrey Hammond’s study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond...
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Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art
Donald Kuspit offers here an innovative psychoanalytic interpretation of avant-garde art, from its origins in the nineteenth century to its demise in...
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