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By: N/A
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Prentice Hall Trade: August 1966
Seller ID: 119689
ISBN: 0139193812
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: N/A
Price: $9.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2012
Seller ID: 213151
ISBN: 0393913392
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: N/A
Price: $11.95
Publisher: Greenwood: January 1994
Seller ID: 277949
ISBN: 0313292183
Binding: Hardcover
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Bernard Shaw was a prolific author of book reviews, novels, plays, criticism, essays, and correspondence. Throughout his voluminous writings, proverbs occur repeatedly. This book is a comprehensive index to proverbs in Shaw's writings. An introductory chapter discusses the importance of proverbs in Shaw's works and analyzes his use of them. The bulk of the volume is a key-word index to the proverbs, along with a list of editions of Shaw's writings that were consulted.
Proverbs in the key-word index are arranged alphabetically according to the most significant word in the text. ...
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By: A.C. Bradley
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: July 1992
Seller ID: 193588
ISBN: 0312079222
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, Germaine Warkentin
Price: $14.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press: December 2015
Seller ID: 376873
ISBN: 0773545735
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Alberto Manguel
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Publisher: Yale University Press: March 2010
Seller ID: 354167
ISBN: 030015982X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called the Casanova of reading, argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything, writes Manguel, landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create. Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of "A Reader on Reading."
The thirty-nine ...
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By: Alexander Welsh
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 2001
Seller ID: 311705
ISBN: 0691050937
Binding: Hardcover
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Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather th...
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By: Andr Brink
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Publisher: NYU Press: April 1998
Seller ID: 327593
ISBN: 0814713300
Binding: Hardcover
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"The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been about the act of writing and self-reflection. This thesis is not new but is part of the currency of postmodern literary theory. Brink, himself a noted South African novelist, the author of some 12 books, including A Dry White Season (1984), and a university professor, brings the insight of an insider. He surveys 15 celebrated novels, historically arranged from Don Quixote and La Princesse de Cleves to A.S. Byatt's Possessi...
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By: Ann Ronald
Price: $11.95
Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr: May 1988
Seller ID: 301875
ISBN: 0874171318
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Anna Quindlen
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Ballantine Books: August 1998
Seller ID: 341705
ISBN: 0345422783
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Basil Willey
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Columbia University Press:
Seller ID: 266272
ISBN: 281BOH1003856
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Benjamin Percy
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Graywolf Press: October 2016
Seller ID: 351065
ISBN: 1555977596
Binding: Trade Paperback
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Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered the werewolf thriller Red Moon and the postapocalyptic epic The Dead Lands. Now, in his first book of nonfiction, Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually exclusive. The title essay is an ode to the kinds of books that make many...
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Publisher: Broadview Press: January 1996
Seller ID: 135721
ISBN: 1551110830
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By: Brian Dillon
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Publisher: New York Review Books: September 2018
Seller ID: 348132
ISBN: 1681372827
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Publisher: PublicAffairs: April 2014
Seller ID: 301877
ISBN: 1610393481
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - LikeNew
For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains one of television's last vestiges of in-depth, civil conversation.
First came C-SPAN's Booknotes in 1989, which by the time it ended in December 2004, was the longest-running author-interview program in American broadcast history. Many of the most notable nonfiction authors of its...
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press: December 2010
Seller ID: 376865
ISBN: 1442641606
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By: Britton J. Harwood, Gillian R. Overing
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Publisher: Indiana University Press: May 1994
Seller ID: 386057
ISBN: 0253208580
Binding: Trade Paperback
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" The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter
These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text.
By: Bruno Bettelheim
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Publisher: Vintage: April 1977
Seller ID: 361546
ISBN: 0394722655
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By: C. J. Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski
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Publisher: Grove Press: February 2004
Seller ID: 369973
ISBN: 0802140491
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Publisher: Texas Tech University Press: December 2002
Seller ID: 362229
ISBN: 0896724824
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood