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Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky.

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A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies.

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J D Salinger's 1951 novel, "The Catcher in the Rye", is the definitive coming-of-age novel and one of the most controversial, and successful, books of post-war America. This study opens up ways of thinking about the novel.

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J D Salinger's 1951 novel, "The Catcher in the Rye", is the definitive coming-of-age novel and one of the most controversial, and successful, books of post-war America. This study opens up ways of thinking about the novel, both in terms of wider context but also in analysis.

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A selection of passages from "Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum", arranged in three main narrative sections: the Numidian Civil War and the appeal to Rome; limited intervention; and outright war. It offers an introduction on both Africa and Rome, giving the history and context of the war.

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In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. -- .

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Without some insight into his thinking process, Salman Rushdie's complex novels must remain baffling even to the well-read.

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Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations, this study explains how Rushdie has contributed to our understanding of the postcolonial, the contemporary, the local and the global city.

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Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years.

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This volume studies how Salman Rushdie reworks and reimagines colonial metaphors in his postcolonial novels.

The book looks at five overarching metaphors in Rushdie's writings: migration, or the transfer of people and their ideologies;

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New critical perspectives on Salman Rushdie's fiction and non-fiction by leading scholars.

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New critical perspectives on Salman Rushdie's fiction and non-fiction by leading scholars.

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Offers an interview with Salman Rushdie, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Rushdie's themes, genre and narrative technique,and a close reading of the texts can provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

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Finding the dramatist difficult to classify, critics and scholars continue to search for the central direction of Shepard's creative development. Lynda Hart's study, which focuses on ten representative plays, is the first book to examine Shepard's growth and development as a dramatist within and against the historical tradition.

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This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theorysteeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on these investments and elucidates their significance.

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Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts. -- .

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Presents the study of Samuel Beckett's fascination with the seventeenth-century philosopher Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669). This title documents the extent of the influence Geulincx's philosophy had on Beckett's prose and late drama.

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