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Midrash and Theory
In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory.
As midrash--the...
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Music and Conceptualization
This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is as follows: how is...
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Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
This book describes a new Henry James who, rather than being paraded as a beacon of high culture, actually expresses a nuanced understanding of, and...
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Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
To recent studies of Renaissance subjectivity, Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England contributes the argument that masculinity is unavoidably...
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Myths of Modern Individualism
In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He...
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan’s theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject...
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Tracing T. S. Eliot’s Spirit
T. S. Eliot’s lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in...
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The Theatre in America during the Revolution
This is a comprehensive attempt to assemble all that is known of theatre at the time of America’s political birth. Because many plays performed...
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Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry
Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms...
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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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Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition
This book offers an original approach to Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the...
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The Gothic Body
Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written...
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Romantic Identities
One of the defining features of Romantic writing, critics have long agreed, is its characterization of the self in terms of psychological depth. Many...
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism
Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism argues for realism as a genre committed to depicting the imperiled ecological system of soul and society. More...
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City Codes
City Codes is a study of the representation of the city in the modern novel that takes difference as its point of departure, so that cities are read...
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Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and...
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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The English Fable
Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The...
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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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Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace
Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century...
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English Historical Metrics
This volume identifies historical metrics as an important discipline within English studies and raises significant questions about the composition...
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Shakespearean Suspect Texts
There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as bad quartos or memorial reconstructions, from Shakespeare’s time. Textual...
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715
Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This book explores why...
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Origins of Narrative
During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had...
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