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New Essays on Walden
New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau’s classic from four important contemporary perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau’s...
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Shakespeare’s Festive World
This book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare’s relation to popular culture. Shakespeare’s plays draw extensively on the events and...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and...
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New Essays on Rabbit Run
Still John Updike’s most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the character of Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, one of those...
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In Praise of the Impure - Poetry and the Ethical Imagination
Alan Shapiro is not only a much-lauded poet but also one of America's most intelligent and clearheaded thinkers about poetry. In Praise of the...
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After Post-Structuralism
After Poststructuralism: Interdisciplinary and Literary Theory challenges the premises of and suggests new alternatives to the more extreme...
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The Catholic Side of Henry James
The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first book to reveal the profound Catholic imagery in James’s work. Edwin Fussell argues that James, though...
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Miguel Angel Asturias’s Archeology of Return
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) is one of the notable literary figures in Latin America who in the 1920s contrived both to explore and to define...
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Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism
In Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism Thomas Strychacz argues that modernist writers need to be understood both in their relationship to...
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The Grounding of American Poetry
Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless – that each generation of American poets faces the problem of...
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The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story
The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the...
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The Regenerate Lyric
Elisa New presents a major revision of the accepted account of Emerson as the source of the American poetic tradition. New challenges the view that...
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Henry James and the Philosophical Novel
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel breaks fresh ground by examining James’s unique position as a philosophical novelist, closely associated...
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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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Explanation and Value in the Arts
Explanation and Value in the Arts offers penetrating studies by art historians, literary theorists and philosophers, of issues central to explaining...
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The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate - in...
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The American Stage
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its 250-year history. The collection of essays, written...
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Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Intimacy
By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and post-modern interpretations to more recent feminist...
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Shakespeare and Multiplicity
Brian Gibbons presents the idea of multiplicity as a way of understanding the form and style of Shakespeare’s plays: composed of many different...
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Hamlet versus Lear
This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of greatest among his works. Hamlet remained a focal...
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Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry
This is the first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature. Seventeenth-century Spanish...
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Representative Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dictum - ‘The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language’ - belongs to a long tradition of writing...
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Modern Arabic Literature
This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides an authoritative, comprehensive critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from...
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Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that...
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