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London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and strolled in its gardens. They have been inspired by its monuments, churches, law courts and theatres and have created fictional Londoners. This work is aimed at book lovers and readers.

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Whatever happened to the bard's books Ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells investigates.

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It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance. Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary Supplement

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Ultimately Lew's poems are devotional songs to the Goddess Gaia ...-Gary Snyder

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'Fascinating. It blew my mind!' - Malcolm Gladwell

Wonderworks reveals that literature is among the mightiest technologiesthat humans have ever invented, precision-honed to give us what ourbrains most want and need.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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Records details of all seperately published creative literature by Australian writers over the last two centuries. Genres covered are poetry, drama, fiction and children's writing.

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Women know that books are more than a way to kill time on the bus--they're therapy in a bag. The authors of the chick-flick bible "Cinematherapy" prescribe the best of classic and contemporary literature for every stage of a woman's life from "Bridget Jones's Diary" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Gone with the Wind". 25,000.

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This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dantes masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy.

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Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.

This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars.

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This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature.

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Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to con...

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- Brilliantly written from a fresh, post-colonial perspective - Traces evolution from Europeans writing about Maori to Maori writing about themselves - Detailed analysis of the two leading Maori writers: Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace - Accessible for readers from senior high school upwards

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An examination of alternate imaginaries of the global in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.

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Jane Austen lived in an exciting age for travel. Improvements to roads and carriages meant that more people than ever were taking journeys for pleasure, to view picturesque scenery, to visit a spa town or the seaside, or to stay with distant relations.

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A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most prominent thinkers and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. It opens a new critical discourse that reshapes our current understanding of Bakhtin.

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Offers an investigation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials Trilogy", and the insights it offers to the world. Contributors with backgrounds in philosophy, theology, science fiction, and children's literature help readers find their way through Pullman's trilogy.

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Considering how recipes and food writing are read differently than other narratives, this book examines the concept of taste in food as cultural and emotional performance and shows how the dynamics of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and social class affect what literary characters and narrators eat.