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A biographical essay and alphabetically arranged entries survey the life and writing of the 19th century author Victor Hugo.

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The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This book looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in remarkably different contexts.

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The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This study looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in different contexts.

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This reference book is a guide to Maugham's life and career. The volume begins with a brief discussion of Maugham's life and work, followed by a chronology of important biographical and literary events.

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Provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available

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Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and transitional society. By this interpretation he introduces a new and imaginative approach to the writer and his work, and Howells emerges as one of the

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Siobhan Keenan's comprehensive survey of the key acting companies of the early modern period offers undergraduates and scholars a new perspective on how their demands effected the sort of plays being written and the multiple factors which fostered and formed the theatre ofrenaissance England.

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Siobhan Keenan's comprehensive survey of the key acting companies of the early modern period offers undergraduates and scholars a new perspective on how their demands effected the sort of plays being written and the multiple factors which fostered and formed the theatre ofrenaissance England.

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Provides a structured process of writing activities using imitation, variation and experimentation. This work contains practical composition techniques such as 'transformational writing', 're-writing' or 'translation'. It also includes appendices with examples of the range of activities that can be used and an indicative list of literary examples.

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Highlights the value of creative and re-creative transformational writing in learning and teaching and provides practical examples of its application. This book outlines the importance of writing as a medium of learning and argues for its usefulness in aiding English students' understanding of theoretical as well as literary and cultural texts.

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An interdisciplinary collection offering a survey of adaptation of literary texts across media including animation, film, TV, fan fiction, biopics and music video. It investigates both 'classic' and contemporary texts by British and American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, and P D James.

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An interdisciplinary collection offering a survey of adaptation of literary texts across media including animation, film, TV, fan fiction, biopics and music video. It investigates both 'classic' and contemporary texts by British and American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, and P D James.

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A detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis inthe Italian literary culture of the Renaissance and early Baroque, one of the most interesting cases of the creative use of ancient mythology inpost-Classical times.

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A detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis inthe Italian literary culture of the Renaissance and early Baroque, one of the most interesting cases of the creative use of ancient mythology inpost-Classical times.

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