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The portraits of the three Greek poets and their poetry, of their social setting, and their purposes within it, are studied here.

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For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent force, an area of controversy in which King James 1 participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this book "Sophonisba", "The Witch" and "The Witch of Edmonton" reflect the variety of beliefs in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period.

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Binds cupid, metamorphoses, harmony, the body politic and an exploration of love, lust, chastity, food and anatomy.

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Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .

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Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being. -- .

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A study of the medieval idea that defined the "world" as recorded in I John 2:16-the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Conflict in Troilus and Criseyde, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is explored. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techno

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Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes' evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women's struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British patriarchy and its growing global imperialism.

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Through the Pale Door is a bibliographical guide to the primary sources and central texts of American Gothic literature.

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Includes twenty contributions dealing with the culture that generated the great novels of Dostoevsky and the criticism of the Russian formalists of the early twentieth century, whose perceptions still shape our views of Russian and much of world literature. This title includes evaluations of books by Jakobson and Bakhtin.

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This study historicizes Tillie Olsens fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction.

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This study historicizes Tillie Olsens fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction.

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Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead, on the modern novel's temporal structure. She notes that the "genealogical imperative" that dominated the nineteenth-century novel, in which one event gave birth to another, has broken down in the twentieth-century novels she studies. F

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John Ford's tragedy "Tis Pity She's A Whore" was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations.

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John Ford's tragedy "Tis Pity She's A Whore" was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations.