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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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Features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols and detailed analysis of important characters.

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Records details of all seperately published creative literature by Australian writers over the last two centuries. Genres covered are poetry, drama, fiction and children's writing.

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Women know that books are more than a way to kill time on the bus--they're therapy in a bag. The authors of the chick-flick bible "Cinematherapy" prescribe the best of classic and contemporary literature for every stage of a woman's life from "Bridget Jones's Diary" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Gone with the Wind". 25,000.

Maps the state of popular literature and reading in America, including the growth of blogs, interactive fiction, and other electronic media. This book includes entries, which provides a definition of the genre, its history, trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, and the genre's critical reception.

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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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This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of anglesbiography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and historyto characterize Chekhovs key epistolary concerns and to examine their role in his life.

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This is volume 1 of a definitive 3 volume set of St Teresa of Avila's prose and poetry, in Professor E. Allison Peers's justly celebrated translation.

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This is volume 2 of a definitive 3 volume set of St Teresa of Avila's prose and poetry, in Professor E. Allison Peers's justly celebrated translation.

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This is volume 3 of a definitive 3 volume set of St Teresa of Avila's prose and poetry, in Professor E. Allison Peers's justly celebrated translation.

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This guide helps make Shakespeare's play more accessible. It contains a complete text of the original work, along with a line-by-line modernisation and plenty of helpful commentary.

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This collection of poems is a blend of modern and ancient wisdom and an exploration of the mysteries of the body. The bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps and the wounds of love and w

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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.

What is it about some books that makes them timeless Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.

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These precise, wounded poems draw the reader through this desolate landscape - through sexual longing, sexual violence, bereavement and the beginning of hope through the birth of a son.

Dammtor restlessly narrates the condition of maleness, looking for truth and music in a voice which is both urgent and unadorned.

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This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dantes masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy.

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This anthology situates the cultural and literary theories of ecofeminism in an interdisciplinary and global dialogue. It brings ecofeminism into conversation with several areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, postcolonialism, geography, environmental law, religion, geoengineering, systems thinking, family therapy, and environmental justice.

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This book explores models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema and intersections between ecomasculinities and other counter-hegemonic practices of manhood.

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As one of the most outstanding and innovative playwrights of the 20th century, Elmer Rice made and sustained his reputation with a series of hit plays and provocative experimental work which, next to the output of Eugene O'Neill, remains the most varied canon of theatrical writing produced by an American dramatist.

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Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.