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This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.

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This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.

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True blue Aussie poet Rupert McCall is passionate about sport. He writes with equal feeling about football, cricket and racing, with an ability to convey the joys and despair, the exhilaration of victory and the crushing emptiness of defeat. His previous collection, "Green and Gold Malaria", was a bestseller.

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"Using cutting-edge philosophical analyses, this book highlights Nigerian literature's contributions to moral imagination, ethical discourse, postcolonial studies, and emancipatory politics"--

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"Using cutting-edge philosophical analyses, this book highlights Nigerian literature's contributions to moral imagination, ethical discourse, postcolonial studies, and emancipatory politics"--

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Impassioned social protest writers inspire readers to relive injustice, empathize with its victims, and take action. The more than 450 entries in this volume survey the most important protest works of our time as well as the classics of the past.

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This collection on the export of Socialist Realism into Central and Eastern Europe after WWII is the first work on the subject which offers an in-depth analysis of the particularities of distinct national and cultural contexts and explores complexities of the cultural Sovietisation of the region.

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Focusing on social and interior experience, this title explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. It proposes a fresh model for the study of historiographical narrative.

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Argues that Wharton drew from Melville's works to explore the relationship between the solitary individual and society.

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This book provides a critical introduction to Louisiana literature and gives special attention to how Louisiana literature and culture depart from the rest of the South.

The volume is the first collection of scholarly studies focusing on Louisiana writers from the 1930s to the present.

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The volume's 15 contributions, written by university professors in the fields of English and American literature, are arranged in sections reflecting three major influences exerted on writers during the post- Civil War era: changes in women's lives, work, and culture; issues of race and class in Lou

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Sophocles, the most successful tragic playwright of the age, was a radical innovator who produced his tragedies to present to his audience complex moral, social, and political issues of a kind that they might be faced with in their various legal and political assemblies.

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Described as the Mona Lisa of literature and the world's first detective story, Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" is a major text from the ancient Greek world and an iconic work of world literature. This book covers the afterlife of the play in depth and provides a comprehensive guide to further reading for students.

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This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb

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Assembled by the late award-winning poet and first published in 1970, "Soulscript" presents a poignant and panoramic collection of African-American poetry by the most eloquent voices in the art, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.

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Focusing on the interplay of "text" and "subtext", this book is a comparative study of 12 works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon. Its aim is to discover what gives these 12 works their lasting appeal and vitality over and beyond their formal qualities.

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Focusing on the interplay of "text" and "subtext", this book is a comparative study of 12 works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon. Its aim is to discover what gives these 12 works their lasting appeal and vitality over and beyond their formal qualities.

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Based on the author's dissertation, Yale University.

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South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and migr South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.