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Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and A

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Noted for her contradictory words and actions, Penelope has been a problematic character for critics of the Odyssey, many of whom turn to psychological explanations to account for her behavior. In a fresh approach to the problem, Marylin Katz links Penelope closely with the strategies that govern the overall design of the narrative. By examining it

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This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perception and the creative methods employed by poets, theologians, and scientists in their explorations of astronomy, light, colour, and the body.

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"Connecting several crucial developments in America's nationally formative period, this book shows how seemingly separate debates and movements in literature, religion, and politics reflect shared anxieties over the problem of textual authority"--

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Covers a major figure in the Early Modern period and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: classical, formalist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist, reader-response, new historical, ecocritical and multicultural.

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Covers a major figure in the Early Modern period and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: classical, formalist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist, reader-response, new historical, ecocritical and multicultural.

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These essays examine the philosophical and religious foundations on which Dick's work rests, offering arguments which reveal both his philosophical depth and the extent to which he drew from esoteric and occult religions. They reveal how his ontological concerns are also political concerns.

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This Reader's Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the key critical literature surrounding Philip Larkin's poetry. Robert C. Evans charts the major developments in Larkin's career as a writer alongside the evolution of critical responses to his work.

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Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than novelist Philip Roth This book examines Roth's 'mature immaturity' in its depth and richness. It lets readers to reconsider the narrow categories into which Roth has often been slotted - laureate of Newark, New Jersey; junior partner in the firm Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, and Malamud.

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Contents Preface, v Introduction, 1 I. Date of Composition, 1 II. Editions, 2 III. Stage History, 8 IV. Sources, 11 V. Classical Ideas, 43 VII. Textual Note, 69 Text, 76 Notes, 161 Appendix I: Influences, 257 Appendix II: Publishers and Printers, 260 Bibliography, 262 Originally published in 1932. The Princeton Legacy Library uses th

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Contents Preface, v Introduction, 1 I. Date of Composition, 1 II. Editions, 2 III. Stage History, 8 IV. Sources, 11 V. Classical Ideas, 43 VII. Textual Note, 69 Text, 76 Notes, 161 Appendix I: Influences, 257 Appendix II: Publishers and Printers, 260 Bibliography, 262 Originally published in 1932. The Princeton Legacy Library uses th

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Analyses the heuristic value of fiction by highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology

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Analyses the heuristic value of fiction by highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology