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Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth C…
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these te…
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- 9783839445020
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- 800 SAW f
Lord Byron : Arnold and Swinburne
A lecture delivered at the British Academy in 1920, exploring the literary criticism of Byron by two opposing British poets of the Victorian era, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Swinburne.
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- 800 GRI l
Experiencing Hektor : Character in the Iliad
This book presents a rigorous philological examination of every instance where Hektor enters the Iliad, analysing each entrance's narrative context and style. In so doing, the author challenges and destabilises previous popular and scholarly assumptions about Hektor, and about the Iliad as a whole.
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- 9781474245449
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- 328 halaman
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- 800 KOZ e
Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American Literature
This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers – Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler – have modernized and re-modeled Emerson’s founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circula…
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- 9780719074288
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- 800 HER e
Entertaining the Idea : Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy
To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s …
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- 9781487507435
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- 252 halaman
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- 800 GAL e
Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell : Yeats Annual No. 20 : A Special Number
This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003-2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Helen Vendler. Those that were available in pamphlet form are now collectors’ items, but here is the complete series.
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- 9781783741793
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- 505 halaman
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- 800 ESS
Environment and Narrative : New Directions in Econarratology
Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical and narrative scholars as well as environmental humanities scholars interested in narrative. Erin James and Eric Morel’s volume Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology explores the complexity of pairing material environments and their representations w…
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- 9780814214206
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- 232 halaman
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- Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
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- 800 ENV
The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815
The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815, explores the popularity of magazines in the nineteenth century and the ways that much of the published fiction of the time appeared serially in these publications. Robert D. Mayo’s groundbreaking study remains important to scholars of the nineteenth century as one of the first books to examine in a systematic manner the impact of magazines on rea…
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- 9780810138575
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- 712 halaman
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- 800 MAY e
England in Europe : English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000-c.1150
In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two queens actively engaged in the patronage of history-writing and poetry to e…
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- 9781442640726
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- 800 TYL e
Early Greek Poets’ Lives : The Shaping of the Tradition
This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sourc…
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- 9789004186156
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 322
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