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Orients the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. This title includes a browsable index, bibliography, and maps.

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Using alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, this book is a translation of the original Latin. It contains a general Introduction and includes index, bibliography, and maps.

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A reprint of the University of Toronto edition of 1965.

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Focusing upon the horse in Celtic culture, this text should be of general interest as well as of importance within the wider context of horsemanship and military tactics in Medieval Britain and Europe.

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Offers a critique of hybridity by reading theories of cultural mixing against their historical precursors. This book analyzes dominant theories in relation to earlier, narrative manifestations of hybridity in Latin American writing, with a focus on Mexico and Brazil. It challenges conventional thinking about the concept of cultural hybridity.

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The first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era.

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Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples.

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A book by the acclaimed intellectual historian on the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars.

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This text looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writing and mystical texts, to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps.

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The New Companion spans the period from the sixth century to the present. The individual entries contain information about writers and their work. There is also a chronology of the history of Wales, and an appendix listing the winners of the main literary prizes at the National Eisteddfod since 1861, together with the festival's annual location.

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Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, the first writer in Portuguese to receive the world's most prized literary award. This book covers both his acclaimed historically-based fictions and his, allegorical works, demonstrating the continuity of thought and image between these two phases of the writer's career.

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This book argues that nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word. It explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences.

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This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who mainta

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This is the first comprehensive collection of hands-on, active learning exercises for the college literature classroom, offering ideas and inspiration for new and veteran teachers alike. These 101 surefire lesson plans present creative and interactive activities to get all your students talking and learning, from the first class to final review. Wh