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By: Ariel Clark Silver
ISBN: 9781498564786
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This monograph treats the biblical figure of Esther and her reception in nineteenth-century American literature. After providing an understanding of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible and its contested acceptance over centuries in various scriptural canons, the work focuses on the reception of the Esther text in America.
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By: Dr. Trevor Cribben Merrill
ISBN: 9781628925234
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr. Trevor Cribben Merrill
ISBN: 9781441118653
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Tom Weller
ISBN: 9780446389723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1988
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Have you ever suspected that the meaning of life is fundamentally overrated The Book of Stupid Questions will confirm this beyond your wildest dreams.
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By: Henry Petroski
ISBN: 9780375706394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Tracing the evolution of the book and its companion, the bookshelf, an intriguing study ranges from the scrolls of antiquity to the modern-day volume, explaining how the art of book storage evolved, and discusses such topics as libraries, bookselling, book collection, and book buying throughout his
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By: Roxanne Coady
ISBN: 9781592403172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Now in paperback, a delightful collection of essays on the transformative power of reading.
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By: Kornelije Kvas
ISBN: 9781793609106
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study provides a broad examination of the use of realism in literature. In particular, the author analyzes the such writers as Thackeray, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Maupassant.
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By: James Wood
ISBN: 9780712665575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Vintage
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This is a book of passionate engagement. In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startling wide group of writers.
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By: John Lincoln Stewart
ISBN: 9780691651101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John Lincoln Stewart
ISBN: 9780691624518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Two groups which originated in Nashville: Tennessee, in the early 1920's had a strong influence on American letters. Known as the "Fugitives" and "Agrarian," they included, among others, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson and Merrill Moore. This study of their contributions is, as R.W.B. Lewis has written, "a searchi
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By: Gao Xingjian
ISBN: 9780732284053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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These eight, brilliant essays from the Nobel prize-winning author of Soul Mountain, constitutes the kernel of Gao's thoughts on literature, and is translated by Sydney writer Mabel Lee.
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By: Scott McCrea
ISBN: 9780275985271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Scott McCrea
ISBN: 9780313361777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gavin Edwards
ISBN: 9781526146298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the interests of a wider radicalism. -- .
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By: Michael A. Bain
ISBN: 9780313258916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As this collection bears witness, the Romantics sought to discard old ideas about language and literature and to mold new forms in their search to recover, in both literature and life, the sense of human possiblity.
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By: Camille Wells Slights
ISBN: 9780691615189
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Camille Wells Slights
ISBN: 9780691629773
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Sharon A. Feaster
ISBN: 9780425186428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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This revised and updated companion to the bestselling "Cat Who" mysteries offers fans a cornucopia of fun, facts, and cat fancy, with an A-to-Z character reference, plot summaries, a map of Moose Country, and more.
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By: Lauren Gunderson
ISBN: 9781350289086
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A time-jumping tale based on the life and work of Nathan Wolfe, a pandemic expert and virologist that speaks to our current time and beyond.
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By: Thomas Rist
ISBN: 9781526183309
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. In a challenging view of inherited literary culture, important figures include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn.
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By: Csilla Bertha
ISBN: 9780313278143
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These essays illustrate the essential theme of the fantastic - the testing of the limits of civilization and the questioning of commonly accepted values and ideas as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.
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By: Patricia M. Ball
ISBN: 9781472514301
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mark Hutchings
ISBN: 9781350197572
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mark Hutchings
ISBN: 9781350011403
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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