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"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique

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New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

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New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

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Floating Island traces the historical trajectory of a WWII aviation facility town while reflecting on the landscapes fantastical aspects.

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"The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps.

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Explores the perennial popularity of the Legion, and asks questions about the meanings attached to texts and images produced on the subject of the Legion and its Legionnaires, assessing the ways in which images, ideas and meanings are transmitted across national borders and cultural boundaries.

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Explores the perennial popularity of the Legion, and asks questions about the meanings attached to texts and images produced on the subject of the Legion and its Legionnaires, assessing the ways in which images, ideas and meanings are transmitted across national borders and cultural boundaries.

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Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U S Civil War, this title identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981.

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Orients the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. This title includes a browsable index, bibliography, and maps.

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Using alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, this book is a translation of the original Latin. It contains a general Introduction and includes index, bibliography, and maps.

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Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

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This authoritative bibliography of Canadas premier literary prize, the Governor Generals Literary Awards, offers a comprehensive and in-depth look at the Awards and its celebrated authors.

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A reprint of the University of Toronto edition of 1965.

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An engaging, easy-to-read look at literature basics such as themes, symbols, context, and other literary devices.

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The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of several post-World War II writers can be best understood through regional history and identity.

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Focusing upon the horse in Celtic culture, this text should be of general interest as well as of importance within the wider context of horsemanship and military tactics in Medieval Britain and Europe.

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When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

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Early Arab writers such as Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri used subversion, wit and sarcasm to critique social and political aspects of their world by mixing the real with the imaginary, the ordinary with the extraordinary, and the natural with the supernatural. This work features the Arabic text of al-Adab al-'Aja'ibi with commentary by the author.

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Features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols and detailed analysis of important characters.

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Offers a critique of hybridity by reading theories of cultural mixing against their historical precursors. This book analyzes dominant theories in relation to earlier, narrative manifestations of hybridity in Latin American writing, with a focus on Mexico and Brazil. It challenges conventional thinking about the concept of cultural hybridity.

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Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples.