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Colm Tóibín
On Elizabeth Bishop

"This book offers the reader a luminous meditation on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. It focuses, among other things, on the restraint of her style and the power of the unsaid in her work. But more than that: …

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Matthew Smalley,
Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature

"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching that ap…

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Hilary Fraser
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume I

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, his first book and the first book-length trea…

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Matthew Siôn Lampitt
Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches

This volume explores the literary and political culture of the medieval Welsh Marches, with particular focus on Hereford, Ludlow, and Ynysforgan. It examines texts in French, Welsh, English, and Latin to …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796), Goethe's second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre--perhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and s…

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Susie O'Brien
What the World Might Look Like

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decol…

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George C Manning
Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders^

Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written in the thir…

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Ronald Bateman, William Shakespeare, John F. McDonald
A Midsummer Night's Dream the Graphic Novel: Plain Text

"The entire play translated into plain English!"--Cover.

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Frances Wood
Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

A unique introduction to Chinese culture and civilization through concise and illuminating introductions to key literary works from antiquity to the present.

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Karolina Karolina May-Chu
Border Poetics in German and Polish Literature

Examines how contemporary writers reimagine borderlands as cosmopolitan spaces by engaging in a narrative practice that relates political borders to figurative boundaries.

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Harold Bloom
The Western Canon

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate abo…

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Anna Reynolds
Waste Paper in Early Modern England

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's …

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Susan Howe
My Emily Dickinson

For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe-taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides-embodies that art in her 1985 M…

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Richard Lansdown
A Guide to Byron's Verse in Fifty Poems

An accessible introduction to the range, value, and diversity of Byron's poetry. Fifty short essays are each devoted to a single poetic work. The essays provide the background and context for the poem, as…

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Richard Barnfield's Poetics

Edited collection on Richard Barnfield, a lesser known but important early modern English poet who was a contemporary of Shakespeare and wrote homoerotic verse.

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Eva Chen
The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-De- Siècle Literature

Explores the ways in which the nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist ideal of the New Woman engaged and interacted with fin de siècle technologies of speed in order to fashion a new, dynamic identity…

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David Salter
St Francis and Cultural Memory

St Francis and Cultural Memory explores central aspects of English national, spiritual, and broader cultural identity through a detailed yet accessible analysis of a familiar figure: the Franciscan Friar.…

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