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An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega's best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student. -- .

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This rich and elegant new work describes how this unsettled cultural climates provided rich soil for the flourishing of elegy. The author shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervades the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater and Hopkins.

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Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.

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"Examines the global impact and relevance of Elena Ferrante's narratives of feminine identity"--

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The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz; "The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land:' by Richard Ellmann;" The Waste

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Provides an introduction to the context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife of the novel "Middlemarch". This guide presents an account of its critical reception. It also discusses the cultural afterlife including film and TV adaptations. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study.

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Provides an introduction to the context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife of the novel "Middlemarch". This guide presents an account of its critical reception. It also discusses the cultural afterlife including film and TV adaptations. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study.

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For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious attention. This title offers an examination of the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that connects her creative disposition, mind and mode to Shakespeare.

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This book offers a discussion of Elizabeth Bishops translations through close-readings of a selection of poems, with particular attention to the features that relate them to translation, and suggests that translation can be seen as a poetic principle that can be related to the poets original works.

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This book offers a discussion of Elizabeth Bishops translations through close-readings of a selection of poems, with particular attention to the features that relate them to translation, and suggests that translation can be seen as a poetic principle that can be related to the poets original works.

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This augmented edition of Patsy Stoneman's pioneering Elizabeth Gaskell presents the original 1987 text unchanged (apart from bibliographical updating) together with an extensive new 'Afterword' surveying Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years. -- .

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A study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832. It analyses three travel journals by her Knutsford cousins which prove that she grew up in a literary milieu.

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First Princeton papberback edition published: 1966.

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This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers.

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This book is about the ways we make sense of the constant changes and interchanges of webs of meaning and being to which we are all connected. Working from textual, visual, historical, and contemporary fieldworks, each chapter presents a unique exercise on challenges of thinking through the figurations of imaginaries into their aesthetic forms.

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This book examines the fiction, poetry, drama, and feminist theory of Nigerian writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. The book expands post-colonial discourse to illuminate the ways in which Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbos literary works explore conventional as well as contemporary themes about womens role and status in Nigerian society.