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One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision, his rhetoric, and his craft. Crane, who has heretofore been assigned a relatively minor place in American letters, emerges from this rich, dense book as one of the finest poets in our language. Mr. Lewis traces the development of the t

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Includes some five hundred poems by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland. This title establishes him as a significant early modern poet. It uses Fane's account books and letters, as well as other contemporary information, to contextualise his poems in a way rarely possible with other early modern writers.

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Poetry of Personality, on the hundredth anniversary of Dylan Thomass birth, is a must-read for both Thomass fans and newcomers interested in an introduction to his works and the unique sensibility that created them. It explores the heart and mind behind the poems, and shows why his work will always remain in the top rank of English poetry.

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Poetry of Personality, on the hundredth anniversary of Dylan Thomass birth, is a must-read for both Thomass fans and newcomers interested in an introduction to his works and the unique sensibility that created them. It explores the heart and mind behind the poems, and shows why his work will always remain in the top rank of English poetry.

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This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.

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This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.

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Reveals how novels of political estrangement have drawn on cultural narratives to capture the zeitgeist of the 20th Century and the disillusionment of modernism. In this book, the author adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century.

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"Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate about the complex intersections between literature and political action"--

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Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legac

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This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writingsmany appearing in English for the first timeoffer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the countrys literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.

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Provides New Formalist readings of three canonical authors by historizing the politics of disinterestedness in the 19th century.

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The adventures of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the late-20th century. This account of the global phenomenon uses the plots and characterizations in the novels and blockbuster films to place Bond in an historical, cultural and political context.

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"First published by Manchester University Press in hardback in 2010"--title page verso

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Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of York.

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An exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. It examines how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences.

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Describes the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. This work shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century BC to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power.