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Renaissance Tales of Desire
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione and Orpheus his Journey to Hell. A Revised and Augmented Edition
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
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Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden's poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
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Twelve of Italy's best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
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Educating the ‘Unconstant Rabble’
Arguments for Educational Advancement and Reform during the English Civil War and Interregnum
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
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A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.
A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.
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Literary Nuances
Millions of Strange Shadows
This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes and offering meticulous close readings of a huge range of authors, from Akhmatova to Yeats.
This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes and offering meticulous close readings of a huge range of authors, from Akhmatova to Yeats.
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Armenia
A Year at Erzerum
Appointed to a border commission in 1843, Curzon paints a detailed portrait of mid-19th century Armenia. From his base in Erzerum, he describes the character, history, culture, and natural world of this fascinating and historic region.
Appointed to a border commission in 1843, Curzon paints a detailed portrait of mid-19th century Armenia. From his base in Erzerum, he describes the character, history, culture, and natural world of this fascinating and historic region.
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Imagining Home
Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
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Three Long Poems in Athens
Erēmē Gē-Perama-Kleftiko
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
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Florida Studies
Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association
This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.
This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.
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The Proceedings of the 19th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2010
The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Alberta, Canada
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
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Gendering Commitment
Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
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A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are corrupting two children, but only she sees them. This study argues her narration reveals a double consciousness, a severe indictment of the possessiveness which led to the story’s tragic climax.
A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are corrupting two children, but only she sees them. This study argues her narration reveals a double consciousness, a severe indictment of the possessiveness which led to the story’s tragic climax.
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“Untitled”
A Memoir of Ireland's Nascent Years
This memoir of Tomás Bairéad, an active member of the Irish Volunteers and regarded as one of the finest short-story writers in Irish of the twentieth-century, makes for fascinating reading, offering insights into life in rural Ireland during this period.
This memoir of Tomás Bairéad, an active member of the Irish Volunteers and regarded as one of the finest short-story writers in Irish of the twentieth-century, makes for fascinating reading, offering insights into life in rural Ireland during this period.
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The Everyday Fantasic
Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
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This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
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The Wild Pig
A Bilingual Edition of Pierre Boudot’s Le cochon sauvage
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
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The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
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This book illustrates the Europe of the 1500s-1600s, focusing on England and Italy. It explores how military interventions, literature, art, and philosophy formed the continent we have inherited, and delves into the mystery of who wrote the Shakespearean works.
This book illustrates the Europe of the 1500s-1600s, focusing on England and Italy. It explores how military interventions, literature, art, and philosophy formed the continent we have inherited, and delves into the mystery of who wrote the Shakespearean works.
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Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
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