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By: Ian MacKillop
ISBN: 9780826485762
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Barton R. Friedman
ISBN: 9780691606972
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradi
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By: Barton R. Friedman
ISBN: 9780691635651
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Carol Adlam
ISBN: 9781850758105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Martha Banta
ISBN: 9780691628035
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau,
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By: Martha Banta
ISBN: 9780691648279
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Dr Deborah Philips
ISBN: 9781849664912
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. The book identifies the literary genres common to carnival sites and traces their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.
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By: Kate Christine Moore Koppy
ISBN: 9781793612793
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches.
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By: Dr Hadas Elber-Aviram
ISBN: 9781350110670
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Hadas Elber-Aviram
ISBN: 9781350202825
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Michael D. Hurley
ISBN: 9781474234078
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Michael D. Hurley
ISBN: 9781350111639
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Philipp Reisner
ISBN: 9781350532212
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The book examines the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English through the work of Brooks Haxton, Suji Kwock Kim, Kevin Hart, and Li-Young Lee.
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By: Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
ISBN: 9781498543965
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The book examines the interpretations, functions and interactions of the Fall physical, moral, artistic and otherwise as represented through animals, or through humananimal interactions, in various religious contexts, art, and literature.
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By: Dr. Aimee Pozorski
ISBN: 9781441122414
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr. Aimee Pozorski
ISBN: 9781501319631
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
ISBN: 9781498539876
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The book reflects on the representations of relationships between partners and between family members in Ian McEwans fiction. The analysis is undertaken from the perspective of the psychoanalytic theory developed by Jacques Lacan.
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By: Nikki Gamble
ISBN: 9780826448781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This text analyzes the fictional portrayal of the child in the family. It examines the literary representation of the modern family in its different forms and includes critiques of the work of Morris Gleitzman, Jacqueline Wilson and Anne Fine.
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By: Bruce W. Young
ISBN: 9780313342394
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas.
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By: Esther Rashkin
ISBN: 9780691604701
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavior, transgenerationally from one family member to a
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By: Esther Rashkin
ISBN: 9780691633749
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Tom Scanlan
ISBN: 9780837198279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1978
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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American drama is chiefly a drama of realistic family plays and its conventions revolve around the antagonistic impulses of security and freedom. Scanlan asserts that America's best plays are plays of family life and that they re-enact dilemmas of personal psychology and family structure.
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By: Helen Dell
ISBN: 9781526173959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception have worked together to produce and sustain the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.
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By: Victoria Flood
ISBN: 9781526164148
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality.
