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A bibliography of annotated entries for all published English-language materials by or about Marge Piercy from her first poem in 1956 to her latest novel in 1996 including print and electronic sources. Works by Piercy are arranged chronologically and annotations include publilcation history and list of contents for poetry collections.

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Offers an approach to contemporary literature, emphasising the links in the depiction of marginalized groups in contemporary fiction. This study provides readings of a wide range of contemporary British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society.

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The Marginal as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emphasis on the marginal subject. This title offers readings of a range of British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society.

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Long takes advantage of the fifteenth centurys intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate practice and devotional literacy as a maternal one.

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Exploring a range of twentieth and twenty-first century Marian prayer-poetry - prayer poems directed to or involving Mary - by poets such as T. S. Eliot, David Jones, Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Jennings, Hilary Davies and Rowan Williams, this book traces its resurgence from the late nineteenth-century to the present day.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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"This book outlines the foundational theology of Marilynne Robinson's work through sustained analysis of her novels, essays, unpublished notebooks, drafts, and an original interview with the author"--

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A collection of essays on the theme of youth in Mark Twain's work and life.

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A collection of essays on the theme of youth in Mark Twain's work and life.

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Considers the eco-feminist fiction of the inter-war British writer Mary Butts in the context of the neo-Romantic movement of the mid-Twentieth Century.

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Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dublin, Paris and Prague. -- .

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The Romantic movement led to some of the greatest works of 19th-century American literature.

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The writers of the Beat Generation wrote during a particularly chaotic period in modern history. The writers of the Beat Generation wrote during a particularly chaotic time in modern American history, as they confronted the threat of a nuclear war, the rise of anti-Communist hysteria, and the growing pressure to conform to social conventions.

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Flourishing during the first 2 decades of the 20th century, British Modernism gave birth to some of the world's most influential literary works. An introductory essay surveys and defines Modernism, and a bibliography cites works for further reading.

Included are chapters on:

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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While American and European writers are still central to the high school curriculum, more and more students and teachers are discovering the great literary works outside the Western tradition.

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Some works of philosophy also stand as significant contributions to literature, and some works of literature have profoundly influenced philosophy.

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An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cultural history--all are combined in Edward J. Brown's literary biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky. It is the only book to reveal the whole Mayakovsky, not just aspects of his tortured personality or artist

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