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By: Barry Forshaw

ISBN: 9781843449188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
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Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the United States, to produce the perfect reader's guide to...


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By: Paula Rabinowitz

ISBN: 9780691173382
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Paula Rabinowitz

ISBN: 9780691150604
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, a


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By: SparkNotes

ISBN: 9781411480247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2021
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Americanah features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols including: the importance of authenticity; race and racism; the male peacock; reading and novels; lies; and hair.


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By: Cynthia H. Tolentino

ISBN: 9780816651115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Anshuman A. Mondal

ISBN: 9780719070044
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. -- .


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By: Diane Watt

ISBN: 9780816640287
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Gower wrote his vernacular poem Confessio Amantis at the same time as Chaucer embarked on The Canterbury Tales . It is therefore not overly surprising that Gower's poem is far less known today than Chaucer's. This study seeks to reinstate Confessio Amantis to its rightful place in the history of English literature by examining its ethics.


(Hardback)

By: Robert Landers

ISBN: 9781893554955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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Presents a literary history and a portrait of a major figure.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Adonis

ISBN: 9780863563317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: Saqi Books
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Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. In this book, Adonis reinterprets a rich and ancient heritage. He examines the oral tradition of the pre-Islamic poetry of Arabia and the relationship between Arabic poetry and the Qur'an, and between poetry and thought.


(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

By: Gwyn Williams

ISBN: 9780708311301
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1992
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: James B. Pritchard

ISBN: 9780691035031
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1970
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Brings together the important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, to provide a contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. This book aims to understand the likenesses and differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding cultures.


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By: Cate Gunn

ISBN: 9780708320341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.


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By: Catherine Brennan

ISBN: 9780708317648
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This work focuses on seven Welsh women poets writing in English in the 19th century. Catherine Brennan presents each writer in their social and historical contexts and shows how they draw on their often fragmentary and contradictory relationships to Wales to articulate issues of cultural authority.


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By: Henry of Huntingdon

ISBN: 9781851242849
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This book presents the first English verse translation of Henry of Huntingdon's recently-discovered Anglicanus ortus, opening a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England.


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By: Anne Stewart

ISBN: 9781517914103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Dorothea Lasky

ISBN: 9781940696911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Wave Books
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The third book in Waves Bagley Wright Lecture Series presenting the vibrant and generous poetics of Dorothea Lasky.


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By: Susan McHugh

ISBN: 9780816670338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of mediaand why it matters.


(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

By: A. M. Allchin

ISBN: 9780708309544
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1987
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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(Paperback)

By: Fred Higginson

ISBN: 9780816672462
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1960
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Arnold Stein

ISBN: 9780816658725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1953
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Jason Berger

ISBN: 9780816677078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: David Farrier

ISBN: 9781517906269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Anthropocene Poetics looks at contemporary anglophone poetry from Anthropocene, Plantationocene, and Multispecies perspectives, and sets out a poetics for thinking about 'geologic intimacy,' the deeply relational reality of 'sacrifice zones,' and processes of kin-making in a time of extinction"


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By: David Farrier

ISBN: 9781517906252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Anthropocene Poetics looks at contemporary anglophone poetry from Anthropocene, Plantationocene, and Multispecies perspectives, and sets out a poetics for thinking about 'geologic intimacy,' the deeply relational reality of 'sacrifice zones,' and processes of kin-making in a time of extinction"


(Paperback)

By: Nicholas Thoburn

ISBN: 9780816621965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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