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Old English poetry comprises a fascinating and surprisingly wide-ranging body of texts, one which continues to engage readers today and to affect the content of contemporary films, games, and fantasy writing. This book guides the reader through the range of critical responses to Old English Poetry and its cultural contexts and influence.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book 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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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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With Ballard's focus so much on visionary perception and mystical transcendence, Gregory Stephenson argues for his placement in the Romantic visionary tradition.

A comprehensive examination of Ballard's work, this study traces his output and accomplishments over four decades, exploring their thematic development.

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Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas.

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This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.

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Here the theme of a tallying of private and public balance sheets, of different kinds of profit and loss, widens to include poems of motherhood and marriage, the possibilities of hope and repair.

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Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat.

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This study examines the roots of modern Korean fiction and its origin in the Japanese colonial period. These essays highlight the intimate connection between modernity and colonialism and provide a wide-ranging investigation into how the language and literature of Korean society was constructed.

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This book uses a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France to show how the collective memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. It incorporates trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, examining a diverse group of writers and bringing to the fore the unique perspective of each.

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrens lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

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This book examines how Hawthornes notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthornes four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.

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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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A radical new study of the Immortal Bard - by a pioneer NZ politician, edited by Dougal McNeill. Unfinished at the time of his death, Holland's study of Burns has remained unpublished in book form until now.

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Presents a close reading of Philip Roth's later works from the perspective of trauma theory in order to emphasize Roth's interest in contemporary global trauma. This title moves beyond a critical reception of Philip Roth's recent fiction that has focused primarily on an interest in post WWII America.

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'When I say I hate time, Paul says
how else could we find depth
of character, or grow souls'

The darkly graceful poems in Mark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire.

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With original work from Ralph Fiennes, James Franco, Dame Margaret Drabble, Isabel Allende and Sir Ben Kingsley, among others