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Provides a survey of the poetic history and practice in major national literatures or cultural traditions in the world. This book gives coverage of Indo-European poetries, the ancient middle Eastern poetries, subcontinental Indian poetries, Asian and Pacific poetries, continental American poetries, and African poetries.

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With selections extending from the beginning of comparative study through the years of intensive theoretical inquiry and on to contemporary discussions of the world's literatures, this title helps readers navigate a rapidly evolving discipline in a dramatically changing world.

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Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature.

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This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary values inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally.

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John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) played an important part in the English literary scene. In these lectures delivered at Oxford over fifty years ago he attempted to define writing style.

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This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England. Gerald Bentley discusses sharers, hired men, boy apprentices, musicians, touring groups, and managers, showing that players in general

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This book reexamines the terms 'exile' and 'criticism' through language and metaphors in the writings of this Iraqi novelist, while shedding light on the tense relationship between Leftist intellectuals and the Iraqi regime in the mid-twentieth century.

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A study of cadence in Chaucerian and Medieval verse with particular attention to often-neglected marks of punctuation in the manuscripts.

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The bulk of the volume is a key-word index to the proverbs, along with a list of editions of Shaw's writings that were consulted.

Proverbs in the key-word index are arranged alphabetically according to the most significant word in the text.

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A directory to the proverbs, proverbial expressions and proverbial comparisons in O'Neill's 50 dramas and numerous letters, articles, diaries and notebooks. A key-word index is included.

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Proverbs figure prominently in his work, and this book provides a detailed index to the many proverbs Churchill used in his voluminous writings.

The book begins with an introductory essay that discusses and analyzes the importance of proverbs in Churchill's works.

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J G Ballard self-professedly 'devoured' the work of Sigmund Freud as a teenager, and entertained early thoughts of becoming a psychiatrist. This title investigates Ballard's engagement with psychology and the psychological in his fiction, tracing the influence of key figures including Freud, C G Jung and R D Laing.

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The first book to highlight the spiritual element in Borges' work - this work offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing.

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Highlights the spiritual element in Borges' work. This book offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing. It argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges.

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Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature. -- .

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These entries discuss his characters, his overt and veiled references to historical and Renaissance figures and events, his literary and philosophical allusions, his major themes, and the key events and influences that shaped his career.

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Jean-Francois Gounard's examination of the writings of Richard Wright and James Baldwin achieves a balance between the fiery Wright and the placid Baldwin.

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"The Racist Fantasy lays out the fundamental fantasy structure that underlies a racist psyche as it develops in capitalist modernity"--

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The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes radical U.S. literature from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries through the lens of socialist thought, recognition theory, and intersectionality theory.

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The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes radical U.S. literature from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries through the lens of socialist thought, recognition theory, and intersectionality theory.

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