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An in-depth guide to the rich history of the symbol of the ring, its origin in ancient storytelling tradition, and its influence on Tolkien's work.

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A comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the Romantic period. Suitable for literature students, it provides the essential information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres.

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A beautiful gift book that will change the way you see books for ever

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Provides a reading of both fictional and medical writings concerned with auto-erotic sexuality in the long nineteenth century. This book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by influential English, Continental and American practitioners such as J H Kellogg, E B Foote, Havelock Ellis, Krafft-Ebing and R V Pierce.

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Offers coverage of the major issues and key figures in Shakespeare studies, designed to facilitate progression from introductory topics to more sophisticated approaches. This work presents an introduction to Shakespeare and early modern literature. It provides an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions research.

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Contending that James K. Baxters use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subjects entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation of his vast corpus of unpublished poems. Baxters mythic figures and ambiguous symbols are explored, to which he repeatedly returned in his attempts to establish patterns out of the 'chaos' of his experiences.

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Whether Jeffrey McDaniel's denouncing insomnia, exploring family or love this writing is original and provocative.

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Is "Cupid and Psyche" a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream This book provides a translation of this best known section of "Apuleius' Golden Ass".

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A major new edition of this perennially succesful play which continues to entertain and perplex modern audiences. The play is discussed in its critial and theatrical contexts and Hodgdon, a leading feminist scholar, opens up new readings for modern audiences and students.

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An annotated edition of an unusual play by a female writer from the early modern period with the high quality scholarship associated with all Arden titles

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"A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"--

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"Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong." From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist in a novel which, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the futility of human life.

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English translation of Euripides' tragedy about the consequences of war and the fate of those defeated in war. Introductory essay; appendix on Euripides' "Trojan Tetrology"; a translation of Gorgias' "In Praise of Helen"; suggestions for further reading.

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This book is a collection of critical essays on Romanticism and select Romantic texts, designed to help teachers and students to make sense of the period as a whole and of the poems and novels that appear most frequently on school and university curricula.

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Written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, this novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) includes a biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf in Ceylon", and a short story, "Pearls before Swine", which vividly draws on Woolf's experience as a young District Commissioner.

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A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek