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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The Practice of Criticism
    D. H. Rawlinson / David H. Rawlinson / David HRawlinson / DHRawlinson
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    28,54 €

  • The Reading of the Canterbury Tales
    T. Whittock / Trevor Whittock / TWhittock
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    42,81 €

  • Elizabethan Stage Conditions
    M. Bradbrook / M. C. Bradbrook / MBradbrook / MCBradbrook
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    55,94 €

  • A Selection from Scrutiny 2 Volume Set
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    74,95 €

  • A Selection from Scrutiny
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    36,80 €

  • The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James
    Dorothea Krook
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    32,39 €

  • Desperate Faith
    Howard Harper
    This book traces the developing view of the human conditions through the major works of these five writers. The method is inductive, and the works are seen as a record of human experience not as an illustration of philosophical theory. A final chapter places them in the larger perspective of traditional American fiction.Originally published in 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition ...
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    64,52 €

  • Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go
    Philip Durham
    Thematically, Chandler’s work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital ...
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    45,03 €

  • Swifter Than Reason
    Douglas Day
    This is the first full-length assessment of the poetry and criticism of Robert Graves. Concentrating on his development as a poet from his earliest efforts in 1916 to his most recent collection and using his critical writings as commentaries on that development, it provides a needed survey of Graves’s career.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press...
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    64,33 €

  • The Notebooks of Andre Walter
    André Gide
    This debut work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature. André Gide, one of the masters of French literature, captures the essence of the philosophical Romantic in this profoundly personal first novel, completed when he was just twenty years old. Drawing heavily on his religious upbringing and private...
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    13,50 €

  • Balcony Stories
    Grace King
    ’The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else is. It never leaves our consciousness. ...
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    40,90 €

  • Sermon Joyeux and Polemic
    William W. Heist / William WHeist
    Two anonymous French publications indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the decaying status and some new uses of the legend, catching the Renaissance in the course of its transition from medieval to modern styles and ways of thought. ...
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    37,96 €