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African American Theatre
The book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre,...
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New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs
This is a collection of new essays on one of the most important works of New England local colour fiction, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah...
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The Poetics of Mind
In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand...
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Progression and Regression in Language
This crosslinguistic collection looks at changes and developments in language involving gain or loss in structural complexity or utility. The...
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Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians
The Victorians were obsessed with death, bereavement, and funeral rituals, and speculated vigorously on the nature of heaven, hell, and divine...
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Structures and Categories for the Representation of Meaning
This book develops a way of representing the meanings of linguistic expressions which is independent of any particular language, allowing the...
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The Translator in the Text
What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking...
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Voices of Persuasion
In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the Depression era: Staub...
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New Essays on The Sound and the Fury
While William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury met with only limited success when published in 1929, it since has become one of the most popular...
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The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, one of seventeenth-century Mexico’s best-known intellectuals, was a writer of fascinating and complex narratives that...
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Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative
In Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative, Anìbal González explores the impact of journalism and journalistic rhetoric on the...
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The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
In The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the...
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Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost’s poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and...
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Banished Voices
This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was...
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Modernist Quartet
Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot) in various historical environments (literary,...
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Healing the Republic
In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers and literary...
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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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Discrepant Engagement
Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the...
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The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays
This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late...
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Print Culture in Renaissance Italy
The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts...
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William Empson
This collection of William Empson’s essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume of his writings on Renaissance literature. Edited...
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The Poetics of Personification
Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater...
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Ethics, Theory and the Novel
The virtual suppression of explicit ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the triumph of one post-Enlightenment...
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