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In this book, Ghosh puts together thirteen new essays on Becketts most popular and widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Contributors explore the play in reference to topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva, Derrida, the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in structural reading, and anti-existentialism.

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This volume is the first extensive collection of her poems since her Selected Poems was published in 1926.

The volume begins with a short biographical sketch of the poet and includes some 250 of her poems.

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Top African-American Studies scholars examine the history and reception of The Bondwoman's Narrative, the slave narrative that has changed how we view antebellum literature.

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A dissemination of the figure of the Afropolitan from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.

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A dissemination of the figure of the Afropolitan from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.

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These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval literature but frequently range beyond the confines

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This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres. -- .

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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature.

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A collection of poetry and prose on the theme of death is designed to ease the grief of the bereaved and includes works by such writers as Shakespeare, Chekov, and Robert Frost.

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These essays bring together historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial writer. -- .

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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During the past 10 years, the situation of women writers in Latin America has dramatically changed as has the interest the reading public has shown in their work. Publishers have noted the growing significance of Latin American women writers and have responded by increasing the availability of the work of these women.

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This book analyzes the use of animal imagery in childrens literature produced by British writers. It encapsulates the agenda of consciously training British children through underscoring resources and fauna in India pursued by the British society in the nineteenth century Victorian England.

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This text provides a survey of the critical interpretive material written about the literature of the authors from Oceania. It focuses on the commentary and scholarship concerned with the poetry, fiction and drama written in English by indigenous peoples of the Pacific.

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Defining "romance" as a form that simultaneously seeks and postpones a particular end, revelation, or object, Patricia Parker interprets its implications and transformations in the works of four major poets--Ariosto, Spenser, Milton, and Keats. In placing the texts within their literary and historical contexts, Professor Parker provides at once a l