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An examination of what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative traditions of a wide range of ancient Greek literary genres.

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Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction.

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John Thieme provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginning in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts - Caribbean, European and other - which have shaped him as a writer.

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"Printed at the American Press, Beirut, Lebanon."

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Places Villena's creative work in relation to the contemporary Spanish cultural scene, to 20th century homosexual culture and to gay and dissident figures of the past, including Lorca and Luis Cernuda. This book explains how he developed a radical aesthetic out of the old raw materials of love, sex, death, power, and the primacy of art and desire.

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An exploration of the subject of time in literature and philosophy.

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Mrs. Nevo assesses the entire scope of the "poems on affairs of state," throwing light on the political mind of the age and the evolution of style. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton

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In a 196768 interview to be published posthumously, the founder of Russian formalism Viktor Shklovsky spoke freely and without fear of censorship about life in Russia and his relationship with other famous artists and literary theorists. This volume offers the first English translation of the six-hour phono-document.

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This book looks at women writers from the South Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between spacedefined through the mythical concept of Trishanku and the frameworks of migration, historical consciousness, colonialism, interracial experiences, fragmented memories, nostalgia, and hyphenated identities.

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The Life of our Lord is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published intil 1934. This is the first major study to carefully and seriously consider the work and its place in the Dickens corpus.

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"The Life of Our Lord" is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published until 1934. Using "The Life of Our Lord" as a source for our understanding of Dickens' Christian worldview, this book explores Dickens' Christian voice in his fiction, journalism, and letters. It presents an insight into his churchmanship.

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The entries, which portray the literature within the sociocultural context of Brazilian life, describe more than 300 major figures and literary and cultural movements of Brazilian civilization.

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This revised and expanded edition of the only English-language dictionary of Italian literature provides some 400 alphabetically arranged entries on Italian writers, periods, literary movements, and versification, and on critical problems related to literary history.

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A reference on literary and dramatic censorship in Tudor and Stuart England. The 92 entries highlight the issues which could provoke the wrath of the censor; the ways in which works were modified in response to censorship; and the fate of the authors who roused the censor's ire.

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Features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. The text contains bibliographical, biographical and critical material - placing each work cited in its cultural and historical context.

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Each biographical entry provides basic information about the author, an overview of the author's literary output, a detailed discussion of the author's most important and most representative work, a discussion of the author's development and use of themes, and a statement of the author's place in the Polish literary tradition.

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The first reference work in any language devoted to Russian women writers, this dictionary systematically covers, in detail, the lives of 448 women who wrote from the period of Catherine the Great to the present.