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New Essays on Light in August
Light in August (1932) is one of William Faulkner’s most important, most challenging, and most widely studied novels, demanding to be approached...
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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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American Realism and American Drama, 1880–1940
The importance of native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and...
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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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Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important...
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T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
T. S. Eliot’s allusions to Indic philosophy in several poems - from the Sanskrit ending of The Waste Land to the ‘What Krishna meant’ section...
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New Essays on The Great Gatsby
The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925,...
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William Empson: Essays on Shakespeare
At the time of his death in 1984, the poet and critic William Empson was preparing and revising a collection of his essays on Shakespeare. This...
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Reading Greek Tragedy
This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be...
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Lexical Semantics
Lexical Semantics is about the meaning of words. Although obviously a central concern of linguistics, the semantic behaviour of words has been unduly...
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West African Poetry: A Critical History
Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools....
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The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature
Comprising over 750 entries in a single alphabetical sequence, the Cambridge Handbook of American Literature offers a compact and accessible guide to...
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The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism
Centering her argument on the influential preacher John Cotton, Dr Kibbey offers a detailed analysis of the rhetoric of the Puritan plain style, and...
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The Fall into Eden
In this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that in the literature of...
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Post-Modern Aura
"Charles Newman's The Post-Modern Aura is a real eye-opener; the best thing I've read on the state of American culture in a long time,...
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The New Comedy of Greece and Rome
In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author’s aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature by concentrating on what one might...
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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
In this, the third and final volume of his critical account of American drama in the twentieth century, Christopher Bigsby turns from the...
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Post-Modern Aura
"Charles Newman's The Post-Modern Aura is a real eye-opener; the best thing I've read on the state of American culture in a long time,...
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The Sacred Game
This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in...
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In the Age of Prose
The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by...
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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby’s critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in this century....
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Virgil’s Iliad
This is a book about Virgil’s Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil’s use of Homer’s Iliad. The...
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Realismens seger
I denna volym återfinns Lukács' viktigaste litteraturkritiska uppsatser från 1930-talet. Här lanserar och utvecklar han sin berömda teori om...
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