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Speakers, Listeners and Communication
In this book Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language...
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Soul Says: On Recent Poetry
In these essays on American, British and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our...
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The Triumph of Odysseus
The Triumph of Odysseus is part of the highly successful Reading Greek series. It presents the complete Greek text of Books 21 and 22 of Homer’s...
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Writing Rome
The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of...
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Opposing Poetries V2: Part Two: Readings
Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of...
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Simone de Beauvoir
How did Simone de Beauvoir become Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century? Toril...
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Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530
Did growing literacy in the later medieval period foster popular heresy, or did heresy provide a crucial stimulus to the spread of literacy? Such...
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Reading the West
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of...
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Cosmos
This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two...
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Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis
Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry"...
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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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Othello: A Contextual History
Shakespeare’s Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its portrayal of destructive jealousy. This study is a...
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Mimesis and the Human Animal
In Mimesis and the Human Animal, Robert Storey argues that human culture derives from human biology and that literary representation therefore must...
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Using Language
This book argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when...
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A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890–1940
This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging...
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The Romance Languages
What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in...
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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America’s major urban centres, presenting hundreds of...
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New Essays on Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the Second World War, was written during one of Faulkner’s most traumatic periods, and has fallen to...
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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the...
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New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams
This volume in The American Novel series addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American...
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New Essays on Call It Sleep
Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been...
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New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953....
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An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre
In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the...
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