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Young adult literature and psychological and social experts are paired in this approach to helping adolescents understand and cope with social problems.

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Covers major wars that have generated a suitable variety of materials for student use - the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. The book maintains that studying historical wars through literature offers insight into the effect of war.

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This book explores how Tolkiens utopian and dystopian themes inspire and remain relevant to modern readers. It examines how Tolkiens malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society.

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African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.

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Utopian Moments is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on utopian writings and their interpretation.

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Utopian Moments is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on utopian writings and their interpretation.

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Huntley locates the novels in the tradition of the female gothic, which Andrews refashioned into her own brand of gothicism: a blend of the gothic with horror fiction and the fairy tale.

Huntley's study of Andrews's novels provides close textual analysis.

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The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a "true blue" Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul's deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.

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Throughout the twentieth century, authors from Latin American countries have contributed some of the freshest and most original works to world literature.

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This comprehensive, detailed study of Wilder's entire dramatic oeuvre is the only one to place the works in their broad aesthetic and philosophical context and to integrate literary analysis of the plays with interpretation of their theatrical techniques.

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Aristophanes has enjoyed a revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides a critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture.

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This work demonstrates the ways in which a complex of ideas with a misogynistic basis relates to the image of the venomous woman--the woman who uses poisons or potions, who has a relationship with a venomous animal, or who is herself poisonous. Hallissy suggests that the venomous woman is an image of feminine power reflected in masculine fear.

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This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must be backed up through action in the arena of public contesting. Long recognized as an elemental behavioral paradigm in human consciousness, the contest

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Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land argues a prosodically explainable literary case regarding how a hidden phenomenon of verbal transformation serendipitously turns the conspicuous message of despair into the message of hope hidden in the text of The Waste Land.

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Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, this title seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet.

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"Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures"--

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"Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures"--

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