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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: Dr Mayurika Chakravorty
ISBN: 9781350401396
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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. Michael Zeitlin
ISBN: 9781501376054
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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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: Professor Alessandro Carrera
ISBN: 9781474297615
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Alessandro Carrera
ISBN: 9781350166257
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Helene P. Foley
ISBN: 9780691094922
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. This work investigates three problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices.
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By: Simon Bacon
ISBN: 9781350227071
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Simon Bacon
ISBN: 9781350227033
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Claire Marrone
ISBN: 9780313307270
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In examining the works of these writers, the author concludes that women writers continue to attempt to define themselves in their own voices. Marrone finds that postmodern writers participate in innovative experimentation in life writing: hybrid texts, creative auto/biographies, and collective life stories.
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By: Catherine Hindson
ISBN: 9780719090141
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loie Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .
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By: Pernilla Myrne
ISBN: 9780755644698
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Stephen Railton
ISBN: 9780691616230
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The oddly diverse character of James Fenimore Cooper's writings and activities has led many critics to view his career as fragmentary. Stephen Railton takes a psychoanalytic approach to the novelist's most important works and the most significant events in his life. By showing how the aesthetic struggle to create reflected attempts to reconcile con
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By: Stephen Railton
ISBN: 9780691643540
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Philip Darby
ISBN: 9780304701599
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As the book shows through surveys of a range of sources including Orwell, Cary, Lessing, Tagore, Achebe, Armah, Marechera and many others, fiction has frequently engaged directly in politics with novels serving both to underwrite the existing order and to act as instruments of change.
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By: Malcolm Cook
ISBN: 9780854967650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An analysis of the presentation of social reality in France during the final years of the ancien regime and the Revolution.
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By: Stephen Cushman
ISBN: 9780691602035
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that Ame
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By: Stephen Cushman
ISBN: 9780691631615
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Arnold Weinstein
ISBN: 9780691642741
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Arnold Weinstein
ISBN: 9780691615233
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The author charts the interaction between self and world through four major phases whereby the self initially has marginal status (the picaresque), begins to flourish and court recognition (Defoe, Marivaux, and Fielding), glows defiant and tries to impose its will on society and the other (Prevost, Richardson, Goethe, and Laclos), and finally makes
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By: Daryl C. Dance
ISBN: 9780313239397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1986
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author.
