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The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.

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Essays by Julius Baum, C. G. Jung, C. Kerenyi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F. Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili.

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This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-p

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Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious use of paradox not only as a figure of speech but as a mode of thought, a way of perceiving the universe, God, nature, and man himself. The book consi

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In essays on film, literature, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding of the parasite as a concept metaphor for cultural and social critique.

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This volume explores what it is that has brought marginalized writers together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period to the present millennium, we consider the questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write.

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This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices enabled audiences to make reading work for themselves.

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This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990's in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. -- .

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An analysis of passion, moderation and virtue in Shakespearean drama from the perspective of ethical criticism.

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Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, the author reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading. He outlines the development of the form, and identifies its characteristics and functions.

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An invaluable, unique collection that combines classic texts with little-known material. This book will give a uniquely full picture of one of the most fashionable and dynamic areas of Renaissance poetry. -- .

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Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully with the past to generate moral lessons. -- .

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This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career to date of Pat Barker, one of the most celebrated and popular of contemporary British novelists. -- .

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This study examines the recurring motifs in Pat Conroy's fiction and his writing talent. Each novel is analysed for plot structure, thematic elements, characterisation and development. A biographical chapter draws connections between Conroy's life and the autobiographical nature of his fiction.

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Examines the representation of gender relations in Pirandello's writing, and assesses his status as an avant garde author. This book argues that while he can certainly be described as avant garde on the level of dramatic form, he cannot be said to innovate at the more covert level of gender relations.

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"Closer", emerges as one of the successful plays of 1990s, and one with a continuing afterlife through the academy award nominated film adaptation in 2004. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an overview of the background and context; analysis of the play's structure, style, characters and more.

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Provides an introduction to the play, "Closer", giving students an overview of the background and context. This book offers an analysis of the play's structure, style, characters, analysis of production issues and choices, and an overview of the performance history.

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This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.

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This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.