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This book reexamines some of the prevalent critical assumptions about English Neo-Classical thought and literature and tests them by viewing Neo-Classicism within its intellectual tradition and its self-defined limits. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available pre

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This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature.

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This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature.

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A monograph that develops a fresh approach to thinking about the transformative power of literature by drawing upon the concept of experience in Foucault's work. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, it suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced.

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Develops an approach to thinking about the transformative power of literature by drawing upon the much-neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, this book suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced.

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This important contribution to the study of science fiction explores the origins of the basic literary traditions of the genre. Emphasis is on enabling the reader to perceive the evolution of science fiction as an organic whole, rather than a mere accumulation of works linked solely by popular publishing trends.

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"This monograph presents a new history of early American literature that traces the diverse forms of fiction circulating in the early United States (1789-1861) and how they shaped the way Americans thought and argued about political and cultural issues of their age"--

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Examines the work of Rasputin, Aitmatov, Voynovich and Vladimov - four major writers who represent many aspects of political and cultural developments in the USSR and demonstrate the diversity and richness of contemporary Russian writing. This book includes an introductory chapter that considers important trends in Russian literature.

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Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent research on the manuscripts, sources, and records relating to the medieval drama. The first comprehensive treatment of all four of the cycles, the book emphasizes the study of the surviving manuscripts as texts distinct from their per

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This book examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.

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John Fowles' 1969 novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" has become a modern classic. This guide offers readings of the text as well as accounts of Fowles' influences and the context of the novel's composition. It also discusses Fowles' manipulation of the story's Victorian setting and source material, and his treatment of key themes.

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John Fowles' 1969 novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" has become a modern classic but it is a complex novel. This guide offers readings of the text as well as accounts of Fowles' influences and the context of the novel's composition. It also discusses Fowles' manipulation of the story's Victorian setting and source material.

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A work about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. This book also debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism. It discusses the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing.

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Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of "gathering" textual fragments and "framing" or forming, arranging,

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This study finds a blending of two frame narrative traditions in the "Canterbury Tales", one that originated in India and the Near-East and the other in ancient Greece. It compares Chaucer's work to a number of pre-Chaucerian frame narratives that influenced his form, as well as contemporary works.

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