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David Porter's approach to Horace's most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems in Odes 1-3. Taking into account the way an ancient book was read or recited, this view of the work as a continuously unfolding creation reveals a strong sense of forward movement and of thematic development, at times

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Gives: a broad definition of the genre and its essential elements; a timeline of historical developments; critical concerns to bear in mind while reading; detailed readings of several key texts; in-depth analysis of major themes and issues; signposts for further study; and a summary of the most important criticism in the field.

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Is horror an antiestablishment force an argument for social revolution Is it a liberating expos of human nature and a peek at the dark side of the unconscious Or is it pure evil, designed to corrupt and deprave Starting from such questions about the nature of horror, this book is an accessibly written history of the genre.

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This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval home and its centrality to cultural production.

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Judy Wolfman has created 40 Readers Theatre scripts based on imaginative and creative porquoi stories that stem from multicultural folktales as well as Native American Indian legends that attempt to give the answers to these how and why questions. The 40 scripts are short, with appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure for young readers.

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Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power of terrible literature.

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Argues for the importance, and societal impact, of the study of the arts and humanities, and of literature in particular.

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Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to represent the world via imagination. The author maintains that the arts do not merely describe our world but that they also have the unique and under appreciated power to make us aware of how we can change accustomed forms of perception and action.

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For the man or woman who's looking for love and riches--but not necessarily in that order--comes a sophisticated and unabashedly candid guide to landing a partner of means.

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Geoff Klock presents a literary and psychoanalytic study of superhero comic books.

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Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works. This volume, a source book for the study of traditional Chinese fiction criticism from the late sixteenth to the early tw

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Howard Fast, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, has enjoyed wide popularity for his writing and suffered from great notoriety for his politics, but has never been given full credit for his contribution to the essential tales of American culture, the American Revolution, and immigrant acculturation.

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Duncan reorients readers' understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses--even as the two were separating into distinct domains.ains.

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"This book presents pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism and sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism"--

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Shakespeare later developed vernacular and street humor in his comedies, festive humor in his romances and histories, and dark humor in his tragedies. Each entry discusses the role of humor in the author's work and includes a bibliography.

The volume begins with an introductory essay on the origins of British humor in the Middle Ages.

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This reference book examines how British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries used humour in their works. An introductory chapter overviews humour in British literature of the era, and sections then treat humour in British literature of the 18th century and in three periods of the 19th century.

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Ireland has generated an inordinately large number of storytellers, and Irish short stories bear a striking resemblance to Irish jokes.