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Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.

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Italian-American writers celebrate their hidden history in a literary tribute to fighting social injustice.

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Tracing the transformation of storytelling in the digital age, this work examines electronic narrative forms. It reveals how digital media convey meaning and create stories. It stresses the difficulty of reconciling narrativity with interactivity and anticipates the time when media will provide fresh ways to experience stories.

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Bardism, Iolo Morganwg's idiosyncratic bardo-druidic vision, was a radicalized version of Wales' professional poetic tradition. This volume's discussion of the layers of national, regional and personal identity in Bardism also brings into focus bardic nationalism and the tensions involved in the expression of national and regional loyalties.

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No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280.

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No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280.

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During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. This book examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession.

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Provides a reexamination of early modern sexuality. The author examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality, and shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts, and thereby question key assumptions of modernity.

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Provides a reexamination of early modern sexuality. The author examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality, and shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts, and thereby question key assumptions of modernity.

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this book offers a practical and reader-friendly introduction to the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. It combines an emphasis on how to read individual modernist artefacts with a wide-ranging survey of this diverse and ground-breaking movement, from literature to architecture, politics to the visual arts.

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Offers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects.

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This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that define the nation-state in Greece during the last two centuries.

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This text looks at the Ben Bowen phenomenon as a product both of his view of himself as a great poet and a Wales that fed that assumption. It traces his escape from a miner's life in the Rhondda, his stay in South Africa, his talent for controversy and his growing awareness of his early death.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud.

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