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Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to begin. This book provides practical suggestions to help all writers give shape and substance to their ideas. There are tips on subjects to write about, ways of approaching them and how to develop writer's skills and critical powers.

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Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other;

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William Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permea

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Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.

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"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"--

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"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"--

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Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

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A new analysis of Wordsworth's reception in nineteenth-century Germany.

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Analyzes the reception of William Wordsworth's poetry in 19th century Germany in relation to other romantic poets. This book establishes the wider presence of many others translating, anthologizing and commenting on Wordsworth poetry and beliefs.

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Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on his work with the growing Oblate movement.

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This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas.

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This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas.

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These two complementary publications fill a gap in the bibliographic reference shelf by covering historical novels published in the U.S. for both adult and young adult readers.

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This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather.

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A subtle rumination on single parenthood, sexuality and video games, James Corley's debut play is a deceptively gentle and achingly tender portrait of lives lived in the heart of the city, yet squarely on the world's edges.

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A study of stereotypes and the ways race has been invented and utilized by the West. Using travel literature, figures on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and material from later writers, it shows how negative elements surrounding blackness were transferred to Native Indians and others.

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If, in the broadest of strokes, fantasy concerns a past Golden Age, and science fiction a future that started out rosy and has now attained myriad hues, then the mere existence of the genres implies time travel. Literature scholars go further however, to explore the further distortions and explanati

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Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content.

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The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a chronicler of his age and crafter of elegant prose--like the simplest painting of daily artifacts, his works have pleased partly because they shape a recognizable world and partly because their form gives to the content its resonant signifying power. Here Jane Costlow accounts for both