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Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings. -- .

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This work analyzes medieval romance narrative in Britain. It discusses topics such as romance manuscripts and their scribes, uncovering evidence of careful scribal co-operation and planning, and explores the historical and cultural contexts within which several romances were produced.

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This book demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies within medical, social and political spheres, and to reallocate narrative agency to bodies typically silenced.

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First collection of Lowry's extensive poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano.

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An examination of images of the Virgin Mary in medieval theological, philosophical and literary texts. It shows how the figure of Mary influences the depiction of female characters in sacred writing, and considers key issues in Western thinking about women, Christianity and domestic culture.

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Steve Sohmer's book solves literally dozens of Shakespeare's riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them. -- .

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Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories. -- .

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Sherlock Holmes has charmed and fascinated millions of people around the world since his first appearance over a century ago. But who is Holmes The world's most famous detective A drug addict with a heart as cold as ice A millstone around the neck of his creator This book discusses this iconic fictional creation.

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Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static background

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An inspired road trip through the South to uncover some of America s most talented and colorful storytellers, their tales, and the lush land that links...

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Is Australian romance an oxymoron It has been long thought so; not for us Don Juan or Don Quixote but Ned Kelly and Tom Collins. Even when romance rears its alluring head in Australian fiction, as with Harry's wooing of Sybilla in 'My Brilliant Career', it is often quashed as a distraction or delusion.

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The first widely available translation in English of one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets.

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A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kant, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire of Mali.

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A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kant, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire of Mali.

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Classic anthology updated for the modern student with selections in French, introductory material (introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors) and notes in English. Each century has its own volume.

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Contains selections in French, with introductory material and notes in English. This book includes time lines, introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors.

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Contains selections in French, with introductory material and notes in English. This volume includes time lines, introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors.