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This is an analysis of the dominance of the horror story in children's publishing since the 1980s, with particular emphasis on R.L. Stine and the Point Horror phenomenon and its many competitors.

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Helping you encourage children's interest in history and social studies, this valuable selection guide presents the best biographies of nearly 300 notable men and women, including such high-interest people as Oprah Winfrey, Pocahontas, Jesse Owens, Jane Goodall, Charles Darwin, Davy Crockett, and so many more.

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Previous edition: London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1992.

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Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the

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From Folklore to Fiction joins in the ever enlarging dialectic for studying and understanding the black American reality.

The introduction to this book presents a review of scholarship on Afro-American folklore and fiction.

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Thirty-three recent YAL titles are included as theme connectors among the twelve most frequently taught classics.

New to this second edition:

Thirty-three recent titles are included as theme connectors among the twelve most frequently taught classics.

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Brings together essays on questions of narrative form in German-language modernist fiction and its postmodern configurations.

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Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.

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This book looks at authors and their works during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, focusing on works that resonated with readers. A sweeping social, literary, and cultural history, this book explores the courage and hopes of the greatest generation through its imaginative literature.

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Explores the global circulation of surrealism and traces its secret and unexpected legacy in writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, and Orhan Pamuk.

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Explores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration -- .

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During the recent resurgence of interest in Cabell's work, literary scholars have given the fantasy aspect of his novels only cursory consideration, assigning them a place in the popular high fantasy tradition established by William Morris.

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With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glaring gap. Mary Loeffelholz presents the work of nineteenth

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Traces the changes and developments in children's poetry from the late 17th century to the late 20th century. The text makes reference to different genres within poetry, changing constructions of childhood, the role of women in developing children's poetry and the influence of anthologists.

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This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women that focuses on aging of women. This work should be well received by students and scholars engaged in the study of literary criticism, women's studies in literature, gerontology, the life-cycle in literature, and contemporary women in literature.

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Readers theatre is a powerful tool for building language skills and involving young readers with literature.

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This book is situated between studies of the material object of the book and Algerian women's writing. It examines the iconographic depictions on book covers of three of the most studied francophone writers today, Assia Djebar, Nina Bouraoui, and Malika Mokeddem, among others, and shows how these covers have controlled the reception and interpretation of Algerian women's writing.