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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.
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By: David M. Sandner
ISBN: 9780275980535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired.
New and important here are the claims for the early development of fantasy literature from the 18th century sublime.
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By: Mary Pharr
ISBN: 9780313323249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Marek Oziewicz
ISBN: 9781350203341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Marek Oziewicz
ISBN: 9781350204164
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Mayurika Chakravorty
ISBN: 9781350401396
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jennifer Stevens
ISBN: 9781591584971
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Designed for students, readers' advisors, fantasy fans, and other researchers, this guide is a launching point for researching popular fantasy authors (and their work) and finding new ones.
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By: Lucie Armitt
ISBN: 9780826416858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A series of introductory books, the Genre Series offers students, writers and academics a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in literature.
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By: Adam Roberts
ISBN: 9781350407831
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: David Yaffe
ISBN: 9780691123578
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature.
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By: Dr Kiera Vaclavik
ISBN: 9781474290388
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Catherine Spooner
ISBN: 9780719064012
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s. -- .
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By: Douglas Mao
ISBN: 9780691146614
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Recovers the lost social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate. This title shows that English-language writing of the period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that environments might produce better people.
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By: Lagretta Lenker
ISBN: 9780313317545
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This text considers the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores types of father-daughter interactions in terms of the power structures of society. Each dramatist drew on themes including incest, daughter sacrifice, education and androgyny.
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By: Dr. Michael Zeitlin
ISBN: 9781501356759
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr. Michael Zeitlin
ISBN: 9781501376054
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Richard Perrill Adams
ISBN: 9780691622392
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Faulkner said that "Life is motion" and that "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." The author's purpose is, in the light of these statements, to define Faulkner's intentions as a novelist and to
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By: Richard Perrill Adams
ISBN: 9780691649177
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Christopher Rieger
ISBN: 9798765103944
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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By: Professor Christopher Rieger
ISBN: 9798765103951
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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"The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories"--
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By: Dr Vernon L. Provencal
ISBN: 9781350005983
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An important new study that reveals how Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers, is indebted to The Golden Ass, employing the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, Faulkner's hope for humanity's self-redemption
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By: Dr Vernon L. Provencal
ISBN: 9781350194878
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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