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Filming Shakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare’s plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and...
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Criticism and Compliment
Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in...
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A Coherent Splendor
In this book Albert Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the...
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Psycholinguistics
This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It deals with the central area of this field, the language...
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A House Undivided
A whole range of major American writers have focused on images of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminised hero. This...
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The American Epic
This is the first thorough account of the many attempts during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to fashion a distinctly American epic...
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Visible Song
For many years there has been lively debate about the orality or literacy of Old English verse: about whether the Old English verse which has come...
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The Spanish American Regional Novel
Carlos Alonso’s study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel, which plays a central part in the development...
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The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
In this major new book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in...
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The Body in Swift and Defoe
This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the...
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Myth and Archive
This book offers a new theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. It argues...
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Transatlantic Manners
Christopher Mulvey has entered the world of travellers writing about their journeys abroad – Americans in their travels through England, and the...
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The Puritan-Provincial Vision
This book suggests a new interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously...
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The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1975)
This is a major English study of the novels of the Spanish Civil War. The book is based on an analysis of some eighty Spanish novels, written in...
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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 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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Comparative Criticism
This volume explores a theme that has become central in our time, as the death of God is widely seen to be succeeded by ‘the death of Man’. Our...
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Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry
Charles Altieri’s groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analysing how major poets reacted to the...
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Ezra Pound: The Cantos
Pound’s 800 page Cantos, written over a period of more than fifty years (1917–1969), invites the reader to join the poet on a journey from...
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Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Stendhal’s great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen today as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In...
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Proust: Swann’s Way
Swann’s Way, published in 1913, is the first part of Proust’s seven-part novel A la Recherche du temps perdu. The author’s expansion, revision...
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Jens Bjørneboe og antroposofien
En analyse av esoterisk og mytologiske motiver med hovedvekt på det sene forfatterskapet til Jens...
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