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Literature: history & criticism
ISBN: 9780571211395Publisher: Faber and FaberImprint: Faber and FaberPublished date: 18 Aug 2004DEWEY: 812.54DEWEY edition: 22Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 240Weight: 235gHeight: 209mmWidth: 142mmSpine width: 17mm..
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ISBN: 9780983626688Publisher: Act Four ScreenplaysImprint: Act Four ScreenplaysPublished date: 19 Mar 2016DEWEY: 808.225DEWEY edition: 23Number of pages: 128Weight: 213gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 8mm..
28.42£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first British edition of the novel, published in 1886 by Longmans, Green, and Co., the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read and corrected proofs. Deborah Lutz's thor..
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National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2020"Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging."-The New York Times"Serpell's vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again."-Publishers Weekl..
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A selection of the most exciting current work in eighteenth-century studies.Focusing on the fraught ways in which communities are defined, volume 51 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture showcases groundbreaking research in all of the disciplines..
48.58£
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, arti..
61.41£
Brand: Wiley
A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mech..
27.53£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every ma..
72.78£
Brand: BrooksCole Cengage Learning
Learn how to plan, draft, revise, format and produce professional documents and graphics in today's global workplace with Kolin's SUCCESSFUL WRITING AT WORK, 12E. This inviting, easy-to-read approach provides detailed writing guidelines using numero..
115.09£
Brand: Yale University Press
A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times-a job he still r..
25.92£
Superheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what's right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world. From their origins in stories created by barely grown men during an era of global war an..
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Brand: LSU Press
In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky shows that the power of rhyme endures well into the twenty-first century even though its exemplary usages may differ from traditional or expected forms. His work uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how a..
61.12£
Brand: Manchester University Press
Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning's rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. This study demonstrates that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literat..
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Originally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her own intensity-the poet pursuing sensation to the u..
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This is a "biography of the imagination," an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called "the body's journey through lang..
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Brand: Taylor and Francis
A research-informed pedagogical approach to L2 pragmatics helps prepare teacher learners for their daily instructional practices. A multilingual approach to instructional pragmatics that reflects today's globalization and can promote linguistic/cul..
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Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated hist..
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Brand: OUP Oxford
'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.' Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War,..
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Brand: Princeton University Press
A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense,..
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Brand: Stanford University Press
This is the first complete English translation of Lüshi chunqiu, compiled in 239 b. c. under the patronage of Lü Buwei, prime minister to the ruler of the state of Qin, who was to become the first emperor of a newly unified China fifteen years later..
125.34£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and issues of social justice and arts activism by an international team of leading scholars, directors, arts activists, a..
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Brand: Taylor and Francis
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.' The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilli..
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Brand: McFarland Publishers
For decades, Marvel Comics' superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossing films or video games. Similar to the chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Avengers video..
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Brand: Octopus
The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works are punctuated by dramatic and explosive battles. Men versus Orcs, Elves versus Sauron, Goblins versus Dwarves - the history of Middle-earth has seen some of the greatest characters pitted against each ot..
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