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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting...
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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book...
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V. S. Naipaul
This introductory study offers a critical overview of the major works of V. S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. Professor Mustafa’s main...
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Plot of Her Own, A
A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation....
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The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in...
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The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
This collection of essays explores Faulkner’s widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the...
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Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages
Translation played a crucial role in the emergence of vernacular literary culture in the Middle Ages. This is the first book to consider the rise of...
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Miller: Death of a Salesman
This is the first book to provide a critical history of one of American theatre’s most famous plays, Death of a Salesman. Brenda Murphy offers a...
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Salem Story
Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692...
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William Empson
Following the success in paperback of William Empson’s Essays on Shakespeare (1986), this first volume of his Essays on Renaissance Literature...
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Movements in Chicano Poetry
Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano...
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Tell Me a Story
How are our memories, our narratives, and our intelligence interrelated? What can artificial intelligence and narratology say to each other? In this...
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Literature against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida
This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a...
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Masks of Difference
David Richards here examines historical anthropological discourse - specifically writings about and depictions of ‘savage’ peoples by conquering...
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Pocahontas
From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at...
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One Speaker, Two Languages
Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the...
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons’s important study Language, Meaning and Context (1981).While preserving...
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Beyond Piety
Beyond Piety examines several fundamental questions regarding the work of art and such aesthetic issues as pleasure, beauty and completeness,...
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An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature
This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco’s classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much...
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New Essays on Wise Blood
These new critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O‘Connor’s explosive first novel, not only question our understanding of the ‘Southern...
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Edouard Glissant
Edouard Glissant is an accomplished and influential novelist and poet, and has recently emerged as a major theorist in Caribbean studies and...
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Novel Arguments
Novel Arguments deals with American innovative (postmodern, metafictional, experimental) fiction since the 1960s. It argues that innovative fiction...
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New Essays on Song of Solomon
The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison’s work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have...
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