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Poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory.

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Helbig and Perkins offer in one comprehensive volume information about fiction of recognized distinction written for children: entries give biographical data on authors, detailed plot summaries, information about outstanding characters, memorable settings, significant motifs.

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With its companion volume, this book effectively provides descriptions and evaluations of award-winning American fiction for children over the last 125 years.

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This reference guide contains over 500 entries on titles, authors, characters, settings, and other elements from 189 children's books by 136 20th-century authors. It also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction.

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Children's literature continues to receive growing scholarly attention, and this is due, in part, to the increased awareness of the complexity of these works and their importance in the curriculum.

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Young adult readers have special needs and concerns, and librarians have become increasingly interested in selecting books suitable for them.

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The entries, which portray the literature within the sociocultural context of Brazilian life, describe more than 300 major figures and literary and cultural movements of Brazilian civilization.

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Designed for librarians, teachers, and researchers who work with children's literature, this volume offers comprehensive coverage of a broad spectrum of award-winning fiction deemed worthy of closer attention by scholars and further exposure to youngsters.

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Not a general dictionary of literary terms, the Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory treats seventy fundamental and overarching concepts from allegory and allusion to tragedy and unity.

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This revised and expanded edition of the only English-language dictionary of Italian literature provides some 400 alphabetically arranged entries on Italian writers, periods, literary movements, and versification, and on critical problems related to literary history.

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A reference on literary and dramatic censorship in Tudor and Stuart England. The 92 entries highlight the issues which could provoke the wrath of the censor; the ways in which works were modified in response to censorship; and the fate of the authors who roused the censor's ire.

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Features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. The text contains bibliographical, biographical and critical material - placing each work cited in its cultural and historical context.

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Each biographical entry provides basic information about the author, an overview of the author's literary output, a detailed discussion of the author's most important and most representative work, a discussion of the author's development and use of themes, and a statement of the author's place in the Polish literary tradition.

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The first reference work in any language devoted to Russian women writers, this dictionary systematically covers, in detail, the lives of 448 women who wrote from the period of Catherine the Great to the present.

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A heroic undertaking, this extremely useful encyclopedia covers the literatures of all five Nordic countries as well as Faroese, Inuit, and Sami....is especially valuable in that it brings to light the sophistication and richness of literature in Finland and Iceland...highly recommended.

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Designed to acquaint the English-speaking public with creative writers of Cuban literature between 1900 and the mid-1980s, this book offers profiles of 120 authors who achieved some measure of international recognition, plus information on genres, magazines, journals and critics.

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There has been no comparable modern-spelling single-play edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage for some decades. This edition, complete with collation and commentary included on the relevant page, is a thoroughly annotated and complete edition.

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Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance.

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In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. This book builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater.

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