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  • Fearful Symmetry
    Northrop Frye
    This brilliant outline of Blake’s thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called 'Prophecies,' and a demonstration of Blake’s insight that will amaze the modern read...
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    49,25 €

  • A Walker in the City
    Alfred Kazin
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    14,02 €

  • My World - And Welcome to It Pa
    James Thurber
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    16,24 €

  • Big Maggie
    John B. Keane / John BKeane
    The story of Big Maggie Polpin and her attempts to keep her family together after the death of her husband is an enduring theatre favourite. The dialogue crackles with hilarious, caustic putdowns as the indomitable Maggie deals with her feckless family and unwanted suitors. Everyone wants a part of Big Maggie and her property but she has other ideas. ...
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    18,93 €

  • Leaflets
    Adrienne Cecile Rich
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    13,76 €

  • A Glossary of John Dryden’s Critical Terms
    H. James Jensen / HJames Jensen
    A Glossary of John Dryden’s Critical Terms was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Although John Dryden is, as Samuel Johnson described him, the father of modern criticism, his critical writings are di...
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    57,78 €

  • Tolstoy
    Christian / Deborah Christian / R. F. Christian / RFChristian
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    65,21 €

  • William Wordsworth
    Geoffrey H. Durrant / Geoffrey HDurrant
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    26,37 €

  • A Literary History of the Arabs
    Nicholson / R. A. Nicholson / RANicholson / Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
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    74,09 €

  • Arabic Historical Phraseology
    A. F. L. Beeston / AFLBeeston / Alfred F. L. Beeston / Alfred FLBeeston
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    43,66 €

  • Hemingway’s Nonfiction
    Robert O. Stephens / Robert OStephens
    This study explores Hemingway’s newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded as his major work--his short stories and novels.Originally published in 1968.A UN...
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    76,77 €

  • Shakespeare’s Romantic Comedies
    Peter G. Phialas / Peter GPhialas
    Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts, and the meaning that the action dramatizes.Originally published in 1966.A UNC Pr...
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    64,01 €

  • Day Sailing
    David R. Slavitt / David RSlavitt
    This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead. The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity of the earlier books are still here, but they have been joined by a quiet understanding, a joyfulness, and an acceptance of things as they are that indicates the poet has moved into a new and most exciting period.Originally publis...
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    44,90 €

  • Arthur de Gobineau and the Short Story
    Rebecca M. Valette / Rebecca MValette
    This study describes the various narrative techniques that are incorporated in the short stories and two fragments are included in this analysis. ...
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    38,48 €

  • The Myth of Paraguay in the Fiction of Augusto Roa Bastos
    David William Foster
    This study presents an analysis of two works by Augusto Roa Bastos, El trueno entre las hojas and Hijo de hombre. In his investigation of these texts, Foster traces the development of Roa Bastos’s concern with the reality of his people and their history, and focuses on the mature techniques employed in the creation of a literary myth of a social reality. 3 ...
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    38,50 €

  • Other Voices
    Alexander Coleman
    Coleman begins his book with the following supposition: that Luis Cernuda was a poet whose primary impulse in his art was the suppression of the subjective and the consequent objectivization of poetry. ...
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    38,50 €

  • The Peregrine Muse
    Robert J. Clements / Robert JClements
    Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Other essays treat of the relationship between emblem and courtesy books--and the identity of literary and artistic theory in the Renaissance. ...
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    44,90 €

  • Rousseau and His Reader
    Robert J. Ellrich
    This study is an analysis of Rousseau’s relationship to his reader in the major works from Discours sur les sciences et les arts to Reveries du promeneur solitaire. In addition to specialists, the volume will be of interest to a broad audience directly acquainted with the major works and should stimulate further discussion of the general subject of writer-reader relationships i...
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    38,82 €

  • The Artificial Paradises in French Literature
    Emanuel J. Mickel Jr. / Emanuel JMickel Jr.
    This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader with various aspects of the use and effect of opium and hashish. Later chapters analyze the influence on the works of various writers of the period, particularly Baudelaire. ...
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    44,91 €

  • Today the Struggle
    Katharine Bail Hoskins
    Many writers, from Aristophanes to Joseph Heller, have written about politics. But at certain periods in history, often at times of conflict and turmoil, writers have consciously used their literary talents to support or oppose a specific cause. The 1930s, a decade of widespread social and political breakdown, was such a period.Today the Struggle examines the political involvem...
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    40,21 €

  • Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England
    David DeLaura
    Hebrew and Hellene explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture. Fundamentally concerned with the humanistic vision of Arnold and Pater, especially as they adapted the traditional religious culture to the needs of their gene...
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    50,94 €

  • a dirty hand
    Winfield Townley Scott
    From 'a dirty hand':Words are very powerful. You aren’t sure of that? Think of all the things you won’t say.Wonderful remark in a note I had this week from William Carlos Williams. He spoke of the 'disease' of wanting to write poetry; said he had been 'off' poetry for many months and-he said-'I feel clean and unhappy.'One reason for keeping this kind of notebook: you can put on...
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    26,94 €

  • The Mythmaker
    Carter Wheelock
    Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabl...
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    26,82 €

  • D.H.Lawrence
    Colin Clarke
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    52,42 €

  • T.S.Eliot
    Bernard Bergonzi
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    54,88 €

  • The Art of Philosophizing
    Bertrand Russell
    The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of communist aggression. In those years the author was teaching philosophy at American universities and exercising a growing influence on America’s ...
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    10,05 €

  • Invitation to Poetry
    UNKNOWN
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    120,84 €

  • Dark Symphony
    This anthology includes noteworthy pieces by such esteemed African-American authors as Frederick Douglass, Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, and many others. ...
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    26,30 €

  • Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism
    Martin Ray Adams / UNKNOWN
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    121,20 €

  • The Road to Hel
    Hilda R. Ellis / Hilda REllis / Hilda Roderick (Ellis Davidson
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    69,53 €