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Contending that a "mythology of race" consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, the author identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found there.

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One of our most provocative African American novelists affirms the literary power of the African diaspora with an eloquent appreciation of three writers from very different places and times

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The "fait divers" are a set of tales which have inspired French writers and intellectuals, and are often the basis for fictional characters. This book examines this creative relationship.

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A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.

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Focusing on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Leonard, this book illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity.

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During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade.

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As Lee shows in Overwhelmed, the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information. He presents a new argument: rather than being at odds, as generations of critics have viewed them, literature and information in the 19th century were entangled in surprisingly collaborative ways.

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Suitable for undergraduate students studying Ovid and his popular epic Latin poem. This book offers guidance on literary, historical, and cultural context; key themes; reading the text; and reception and influence.

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A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts. This title offers guidance on: literary, historical and cultural context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; and, further reading.

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A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides. In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into cons

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Florence Verducci challenges the presuppositions and expectations that have led to embarrassed censure of the wit and comic irreverence that Ovid wove into these dramatic monologues, addressed by his heroines to absent lovers. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make avail

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The most prolific of Roman poets, Ovid was born in 43 BC and died in exile on the Black Sea in 17 AD, banished by the Emperor Augustus.

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Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War.

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"Examines trans-Pacific poets and writers to suggest a different way of understanding Oceanic literature and its place in world literature"--

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"Examines trans-Pacific poets and writers to suggest a different way of understanding Oceanic literature and its place in world literature"--

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Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond. -- .

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Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond. -- .