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Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance (Selected Papers from the English Institute)

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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: December 1986

Seller ID: 17814

ISBN: 0801834058

Binding: Hardcover

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When we speak of the English Renaissance, what is it that we are naming, what are we recognizing reborn? As the essays in this latest collection from the English Institute demonstrate, our basic notions of the period have themselves been reconceived. In Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce, seven critics defamiliarize the images of the Renaissance "to permit the repressed to return, to acknowledge the presence of the unassimilable ghost the mark of difference of an age that is at once self and 'other'."John Hollander discovers a "hidden undersong" in the Spenserian lyric, while Patricia Parker e...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: May 1985

Seller ID: 69136

ISBN: 0198661304

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for the Fifth Edition, the eminent novelist and biographer Margaret Drabble has put together the most substantial and significant revision in the book's distinguished history. The Classic Guide to English Literary Culture Here, thoroughly updated, is the standard reference work on English ...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: May 1985

Seller ID: 69137

ISBN: 0198661304

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Delphian Text, Part Fifteen

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Publisher: W. B. Conkey Company: January 1928

Seller ID: 69476

ISBN: B000F3HV9A

Binding: Hardcover

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Delphian Text Part Thirteen, prepared for the exclusive use of its members in Th

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Publisher: Delphian Society: January 1927

Seller ID: 69478

ISBN: B002STP6GE

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition

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Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: May 1985

Seller ID: 69484

ISBN: 0198661304

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature Fifth Edition (Book Club Paperback - 1983)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press.: January 1983

Seller ID: 69485

ISBN: B0046BEFZA

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Twentieth Century Views; Coleridge, A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)

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Publisher: Prentice Hall Trade: June 1967

Seller ID: 73020

ISBN: 0131395688

Binding: Hardcover

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The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature

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Publisher: Macmillan General Reference: August 1992

Seller ID: 117747

ISBN: 0136896626

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Dylan Thomas: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)

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Publisher: Prentice Hall Trade: August 1966

Seller ID: 119689

ISBN: 0139193812

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The Norton Introduction to Literature, 11th Edition

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2012

Seller ID: 213151

ISBN: 0393913392

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The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Eleventh Edition, is a diverse, flexible, and balanced text that offers the most carefully edited apparatus and the most interesting and useful treatment of the contexts of literature. A best seller since its first edition, The Norton Introduction to Literature continues to meet the needs of today s students and instructors, offering trusted guidance for analyzing texts, writing thoughtfully, and appreciating literature.
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The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of George Bernard Shaw (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature)

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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. Each entry...
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Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

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Publisher: 37 Ink: December 2018

Seller ID: 332272

ISBN: 150115429X

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Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth

By: A.C. Bradley

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: July 1992

Seller ID: 193588

ISBN: 0312079222

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Nearly half a million copies in print. A.C.Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time. In his ten lectures A.C.Bradley has provided a study of the four great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - which reveals a deep understanding of Shakepearean thought and art. John Russell Brown, a distinguished Shakespearean scholar, has written an entirely new introduction for this third edition which considers the enormous contribution of Bradley's work to twentieth-century Shakespeare criticism.
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Hamlet in His Modern Guises

By: Alexander Welsh

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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 than an end ...
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Essays of Four Decades

By: Allen Tate

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Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute: June 1999

Seller ID: 138457

ISBN: 1882926293

Binding: Hardcover

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This classic collection of nearly fifty essays by one of the century's most acclaimed poets and literary critics speaks poignantly to the concerns of today's students, teachers, and general literature readers alike. It covers the broad sweep of Tate's critical concerns: poetry, poets, fiction, the imagination, language, literature, and culture.
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The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino

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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 "Possession" and Italo Cal...
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