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A sequel to "The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse (Saqi)", this book investigates a number of crucial questions related to the genre's development such as: Why did the Arabic short story take certain trajectories and what determined its path Can the study of this genre provide us with wider insights into the culture as a whole

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This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. -- .

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Jared Lobdell argues that fantasy is the natural, if not inevitable direction of fiction writing. Surveying and criticizing authors who influenced J.R.R. Tolkien' and presenting contemporary authors like Stephen King, and Ursula Le Guin, Professor Lobdell identifies a pattern in the evolution of fiction.

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This volume reproduced, with commentary and full contextual discussion, all the miniatures from unpublished illuminated manuscripts of "Le Roman de la Rose", in the National Library of Wales.

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The first complete English translation by a single translator of Bdier's classic work, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary materials to help the reader understand the history of the legend and Bdier's method in creating his classic retelling.

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The first complete English translation by a single translator of Bdier's classic work, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary materials to help the reader understand the history of the legend and Bdier's method in creating his classic retelling.

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A collection of poetry dedicated to great ruins, the physical icons of a romantic engagement with the past.

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New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

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Illuminates the connection between literature, identity, and mapmaking in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France..

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Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel This title explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation.

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Reveals that James Joyce's "Ulysses" can be seen as a guerrilla text written to resist colonialism.

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Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream This book provides a translation of this best known section of Apuleius' "Golden Ass", some useful and illustrative parallels, and a discussion of what to make of this classic story.

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New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

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Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. This work helps us to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a different and better world.

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Provides an overview of and introduction to the Towneley cycle of plays, a 32-play cycle written in c 1500, which begins with the fall of Lucifer and ends with the Last Judgement, and was performed as part of the festival of Corpus Christi in Wakefield. This volume examines the cycle's textual history, and discusses issues of language and style.