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Explores the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly -- .

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Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .

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Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors

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Thomas Harris created the iconic fictional murderer and sociopath, Hannibal Lecter. This book explores and analyzes the characters, artistry, and cultural impact of Harris's novels-four of which are centered on the terrifying villain of the iconic film, The Silence of the Lambs.

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Attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from various perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. This book reveals the interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory.

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Provides a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. This book traces the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men and argues that jealousy is promoted within patriarchy. It also explores the economy of possession and its relationship to the body.

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Offers a representative selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. This title also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a modern reader.

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A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful new memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.

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A generous selection of diverse thought on the search for and collection of manuscripts and autograph letters, and their role in the history of ideas, has been culled from the first twenty years of Manuscripts, the Manuscript Society's quarterly publication.

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Celebrating the wealth of quality multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States.

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Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the 1920s. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-o

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Traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a 'conceptual hierarchy' to a living cultural system. This book seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St Petersburg - with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives - to offer a view of an urban landscape.

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Discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, this title maps various districts of the 'west country' to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification.

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Considers four regional writers and their complex relationship with concepts of space and place at a time of seismic social change.

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Explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe onwards, the author devises a compelling concept of literary constellations.