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Modern-spelling edition of the two works, allows the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text. -- .

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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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Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive.

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Offers an account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, nationally and internationally. This volume assesses the contribution of David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays.

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A detailed summary of the novel's plot is followed by a close examination of the novel's genesis, its publication history, and the merits of various editions and translations. Later chapters discuss the social and cultural contexts informing the work, Flaubert's literary craftsmanship, and the novel's critical reception.

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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .

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During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. -- .

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the concept of the keyword as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the concept of the keyword as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.

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In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of antithetical structure in narrative, and develops a grammar of discontinuity" for interpreting other texts as well. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dem

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Lyly's most elegantly structured play, newly edited from the quarto of 1601 -- .

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The book offers close scrutiny of three illustrative works: Cat's Eye as the artist novel, The Handmaid's Tale as a dystopian novel, and The Blind Assassin as a villainess novel. This book extends the dialogue surrounding Atwood's work in several important ways.

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A reference of alphabetically-arranged entries for over 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were influenced by cultures other than their own. Each entry includes a biography, discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the writer's reception, and bibliographies.

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A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms. -- .

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This reference is a list of all theatrical productions of the early modern Irish dramatic movement, including premieres and revivals. The volume includes productions from the 1899 founding of the Irish Literary Theatre through the April 1916 Easter Rising.

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A book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose what to read next. It covers 600 books ranging from "The Shock Doctrine" to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

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An indispensable guide for anyone who runs or participates in a book group, this title provides the structure and fun facts needed to examine the genre of womens fiction.

Women's fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of womenfriendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships.

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One of the most popular and prolific writers of our day, Mary Higgins Clark continues to write bestselling, award-winning novels of mystery and suspense, attracting new fans worldwide and thrilling dedicated readers who have followed her career for nearly three decades.

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A complete bibliography of all Stephen King's work, critical sources, and a listing of reviews of the novels examined in depth complete the work.

Each chapter deals with one novel and includes sections on plot and narrative structure, character development, and thematic concerns.

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