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Hamlet without Hamlet
Hamlet without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has...
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Language in the World
What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining,...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Actress
This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout...
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The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919–1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical...
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The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
One of America’s most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the...
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Morals and Villas in Seneca’s Letters
John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as...
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The Metamorphosis of Persephone
Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency...
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Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature, 1860–1940
Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism...
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Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson
Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic...
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The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England
Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging...
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Women, Modernism, and Performance
Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the...
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A for Alibi
Texts by Charlotte Bigg, Erna Fiorentini, Mika Hannula, Raimundas Malasauskas, Katrin Solhdju
Contributions by the participating artists Maria...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
This volume of the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe....
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Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language...
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Beyond Anger
Beyond Anger is a detailed literary analysis of the three poems which make up Juvenal’s third book of Satires (i.e. Satires 7, 8 and 9). Dr Braund...
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Esther Regina: A Bakhtinian Reading
Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the Book of Esther in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book's flagrant displays of...
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Petronius the Poet
The ancient novel, previously relegated to the margins of literary study, has recently taken its place at centre stage. Petronius’ Satyricon, the...
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The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? And how did it operate in the literary and...
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Voyages in Print
The decades leading up to England’s first permanent American colony saw not only territorial and commercial expansion but also the emergence of a...
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Rabelais och skrattets historia
Michail Bachtins Rabelais och skrattets historia är en undersökning av »den folkliga skrattkulturens» historia. I centrum för Bachtins...
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Reading Latin Poetry Aloud
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It...
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The Russian Memoir
Throughout the development of modern Russian society, the memoir, with its dual agendas of individualized expression and reliable reportage, has...
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