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This book examines Mohja Kahfs use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist views of Muslim women. By revisiting historical Islamic figures and rewriting Western literary forms and narratives, Kahf challenges the stereotype of the oppressed Muslim female and reclaims a multifaceted identity.

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A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, Why read a work of imaginative literature

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Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles. -- .

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The analysis of the mythopoetics of a literary work involves the search for mythological archetypes, parallels, paradigms, and motives in a literary text. Zubarev presents a compelling approach to literary analysis, and explores the enigmatic roots of Chekhov's universal significance.

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A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.

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A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important but impossible to describe.

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A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important but impossible to describe.

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This valuable reference work provides an overview of Wolfe's life and works in a readily accessible format. A helpful, quick-reference glossary of characters and places in Wolfe's works is included, as well as a series of useful geneological charts of fictional characters and corresponding real-life family members.

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"The primary aim of this book is to give its readers an idea of the places Thoreau describes in his own books. The importance of those places will depend upon the readers' critical views of Thoreau. To those who read him literally, the maps will provide a convenient way of following his travels in Massachusetts, Maine, Canada, Cape Cod, Minnesota--

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This reference book indexes hundreds of almanacs published between 1776 and 1800 and thus makes it easy for researchers to learn about daily life in early America.

The volume begins with a short introduction that discusses some of the fascinating information contained in American almanacs of the late 18th century.

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First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature -- .

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A biographical essay and alphabetically arranged entries survey the life and writing of the 19th century author Victor Hugo.

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The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This book looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in remarkably different contexts.

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The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This study looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in different contexts.

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Sometimes called the American Shakespeare, William Faulkner is known for providing poignant and accurate renderings of the human condition, creating a world of colorful characters in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, and writing in a style that is both distinct and demanding.

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This reference book is a guide to Maugham's life and career. The volume begins with a brief discussion of Maugham's life and work, followed by a chronology of important biographical and literary events.

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Because the foundation of the social studies curriculum is the family, A Window into History gives teachers an engaging method for introducing students to books that are structured as personal narratives of family histories.

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Toni Morrison explores the interaction of race, class, culture and gender in her novels. This study takes into account Western and Black traditions to show how Morrison, through the reversal or subversion of Western stereotypes, harnesses the potential of the significance they contain.