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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of...
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New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio
Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a classic of modernist American fiction. In...
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An Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism
This book comprises a general survey of the study of New Testament manuscripts, and outlines for students of the New Testament the basic tools and...
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In Respect to Egotism
Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its...
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Poet’s Prose
Poet’s Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognised as a pioneering study in contemporary...
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Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism
Ezra Pound’s vocal support for Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism and his indictment, arrest, and imprisonment without trial have been a source...
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Walt Whitman and the American Reader
In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary...
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Spanish Romantic Literary Theory and Criticism
This study provides a fresh assessment of Spanish Romanticism through a sympathetic appraisal of its literary theory and criticism. It identifies the...
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Analyzing Shakespeare’s Action
In this book, Charles and Elaine Hallett invite the reader to follow the actions of Shakespeare’s plays. They show that the conventional division...
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Penelope’s Web
Penelope’s Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women’s writing, feminist criticism,...
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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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At Face Value
This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on...
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from...
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Sporting with the Gods
Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of play, game, and sport as they are reflected in American literature and culture. The \'race\' for...
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Céline: Journey to the End of the Night
This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity...
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The Decipherment of Linear B
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most...
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New Essays on Native Son
New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. After an introductory essay by the editor on...
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Myth, Literature and the African World
Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of...
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Novel Epics
Novel Epics reassesses the origins of the nineteenth-century Russian novel, challenging the LukÁcs-Bakhtin theory of epic. Frederick T. Griffiths...
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New Essays on The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James’s most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays...
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Poetic License
In Poetic License, Marjorie Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in "opening up the canon," our understanding of poetry and...
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Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism was the dominant movement in experimental American painting from the 1940s through the early 1960s. This book is a collection...
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The American Historical Romance
This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It...
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