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By: English Showalter
ISBN: 9780691646404
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: English Showalter
ISBN: 9780691619521
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In France between 1641 and 1782 the romance developed into the novel. Mr. Showalter's intensive study of the novel, particularly during the critical period 1700-1720, shows that an important movement toward nineteenth century realism was taking place. To trace this development the author has selected five phenomena--time, space, names, money, and t
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By: L. A. C. Dobrez
ISBN: 9781472507778
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Steven Earnshaw
ISBN: 9780719099618
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label 'existential'. -- .
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By: H. J. Blackham
ISBN: 9781472509192
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Previous edition published in 1985 by The Athlone Press.
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By: Garth Tissol
ISBN: 9780691600390
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant. It is the style that makes the process of reading the
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By: Garth Tissol
ISBN: 9780691630335
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Alice Kessler-Harris
ISBN: 9780313259562
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the twentieth century.
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By: Professor Joseph Acquisto
ISBN: 9781628926521
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Eric S. Rabkin
ISBN: 9780691636023
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eric S. Rabkin
ISBN: 9780691607443
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What exactly is the fantastic In the twentieth-century world, our notions of what is impossible are assaulted every day. To define the nature of fantasy and the fantastic, Eric S. Rabkin considers its role in fairy tales, science fiction, detective stories, and religious allegory, as well as in traditional literature. The examples he studies range
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By: Donald Morse
ISBN: 9780313255267
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From a discussion of the problem of communicating with non-human beings and a review of popular fantastic films to an examination of stage portrayals of Dr. Frankenstein's monster, the essays included reflect and reinfoce the international appeal of the fantastic.
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By: David M. Sandner
ISBN: 9780313300844
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study begins with a look at works by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, focusing on the 18th-century view of childhood and fantasy. It expands on the notion that English Romanticism played a significant role in preparing adults to accept fantasy literature for children.
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By: Eva M. Sartori
ISBN: 9780313296512
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This reference book provides information about French women writers and the world in which they lived.
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By: Friederike Eigler
ISBN: 9780313293139
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While existing reference works focus exclusively on women authors, this volume contains numerous topical entries and covers the role of women in German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 500 topics.
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By: Rinaldina Russell
ISBN: 9780313294358
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This reference work, on Italian literature, is a companion volume for all who wish to investigate Italian literary culture and writings, both by women and by men, in light of feminist theory.
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By: Dr Fiona Tolan
ISBN: 9781350336773
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Fiona Tolan
ISBN: 9781350336735
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Arnold Weinstein
ISBN: 9780691607986
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Arnold Weinstein
ISBN: 9780691636481
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: William Hazlitt
ISBN: 9780140436136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style. This title demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. It includes classic pieces of drama and literature criticism, such as his essays on Shakespeare and Coleridge, as well as material from his social and political journalism.
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By: D. G. Bridson
ISBN: 9781472509901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Andrey Bely
ISBN: 9780691632537
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Andrey Bely
ISBN: 9780691603131
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one of the great achievements of Russian Modernism--is translated to English here. A poet, critic, philosopher, and novelist, Bely was a leading figure among the Russian Symbolists, and The First Encounter is thought to be his greatest work
