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  • The Yemassee
    William Gilmore Simms
    To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. ...
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    55,08 €

  • The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris
    Donald Pizer
    All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896-1897 and selections from his 'Weekly Letter' column for the Chicago American in 1901. Essays from these two previously unexploited sources, comprising almost half the book, reveal certain areas of Norris’s thought whi...
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    33,46 €

  • Five Metaphysical Poets
    Bennett Joan / Joan Bennett
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    57,16 €

  • The Christian World of C.S. Lewis,
    Clyde S. Kilby
    This study provides a perceptive and illuminating guide to C.S. Lewis’s writings. Kilby examines Lewis’s Christian works one by one, compares them with each other and with books by other authors, and elucidates the themes that recur throughout the main body of Lewis’s writings. 3 ...
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    20,73 €

  • Vital d’Audiguier and the Early Seventeenth-Century French Novel
    Frederick Wright Vogler
    This study examines the fictional works of the French writer Vital d’Audiguier (1565-1624), whose novels provide insight into the changes of the French reading public’s taste in fiction during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. ...
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    38,54 €

  • The Development of the Tragédie Nationale in France from 1552-1800
    George Bernard Daniel
    This study treats the evolution of that branch of serious French drama whose themes were taken from the national history. The study also concerns dramatic groups, the staging of plays, and audiences. 3 ...
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    44,92 €

  • A History of the Useless Precaution Plot in Spanish and French Literature
    Frank Sedwick
    This edition is annotated and introduced with a detailed chart of representative Spanish and French works of 'useless-precaution' plots. The intention of the essay is to deal with the specific aspect of cuckoldry (traceable in literary history), in which cuckolding is the final result of a dramatic plot. ...
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    38,47 €

  • Social Drama in Nineteenth-Century Spain
    J. Hunter Peak
    This volume traces social drama in Spain from its beginnings in the works of Moratin, treats those continuing the Moratin tradition, and studies the social drama of Tamayo y Baus, Ayala, Eguilza, Echegaray, the minor playwrights, and Dicenta and Galdos. 3 ...
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    38,57 €

  • The Necessary Earth
    Wilson O. Clough / Wilson OClough
    The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distinguish it from that of other lands. Since literature is, in the author’s words, 'a compound of time, place, and the individual projection of personal experience and reflection into objective forms,' the American comp...
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    33,55 €

  • The Invisible Tent
    Ambrose Gordon
    This critical evaluation of Ford Madox Ford’s 'novels of war, which are also novels about peace,' is made in a most delightful manner. Based on a thorough knowledge of the novelist, it is enriched by keen perception and delicate taste and is couched in an informal, highly readable style.Ambrose Gordon, Jr., here analyzes seven novels by Ford that in Gordon’s opinion constitute ...
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    26,98 €

  • Hereditas
    Frederic Will
    Is Ancient Greece still meaningful to the twenty-first-century world? The vitality of the classical tradition, which has been a long-enduring and important element in our culture, is the concern of the seven scholars who in this book present their answers to this question.In various ways their essays support editor Frederic Will’s statement that the 'complex and mature group of...
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    33,71 €

  • La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
    R. O. Jones
    The Spanish novella Lavida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades was publishedanonymously in Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famousas the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel. ...
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    17,80 €

  • Meditations on Quixote
    Jose Ortega y. Gasset / Jose Ortega yGasset
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    16,72 €

  • The Wheelwright’s Shop
    George Sturt
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    45,69 €

  • Fables of Identity
    Northrop Frye
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    18,24 €

  • Classics of Greek Literature
    Harry E. Wedeck / Harry EWedeck
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    35,54 €

  • The Novels and Travels of Camilo José Cela
    Robert Kirsner
    Published in 1963, this book gave historical context to the works of Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) who would go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature in 1989. ...
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    38,48 €

  • The Cultural Milieu of Addison’s Literary Criticism
    Lee Andrew Elioseff
    The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initially, Lee Andrew Elioseff defines four difficult responsibilities of the histori...
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    33,55 €

  • Kant and the Southern New Critics
    William J. Handy / William JHandy
    An author’s true meaning has always been largely a matter of opinion among literary critics, even when only objective language was analyzed. However, a writer’s inner meaning, which perhaps not even he or she consciously realizes, interests the 'new critics,' who base their theory of criticism on the writings of Immanuel Kant and hold philosophical values to be essential in stu...
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    27,14 €

  • Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry
    Douglas Bush
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    26,79 €

  • Aristophanes
    Aristophanes
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    26,08 €

  • Discovering Poetry
    Elizabeth Drew
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    16,60 €

  • English Satire
    James Sutherland / Peter Sutherland / Sutherland James
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    37,39 €

  • Collected Verse Plays
    Richard Eberhart
    These plays are the most original work in the field in recent years. They constitute a signal contribution to contemporary verse drama. Rich with a wide range of dramatic mood and characterization, from witty repartee to solemn high-drama, they are new evidence of a major American poet.Originally published in 1962.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use...
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    54,84 €

  • A Critical Edition of Lope de Vega’s Las paces de los reyes y judía de Toledo
    James A. Castañeda / James ACastañeda
    The introduction to this critical edition offers a new examination of the historical probability of the love affair of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, and a Jewess. It further traces the peregrinations of that theme in literature across periods and national traditions. This edition of Las paces de los reyes y judia de Toledo, through its situation of the text within a diachronic...
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    44,62 €

  • Literary Criticism
    This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of value at present, either in developing our own critical thought or in interpreting the most important literature of their own ages. 3...
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    33,36 €

  • John Donne’s Lyrics
    Arnold Stein
    John Donne’s Lyrics was first published in 1962. 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.Combining modern insight with historical perspective, Professor Stein offers a fresh interpretation of Donne’s lyric poems. His method is cum...
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    71,84 €

  • The Art of Faulkner’s Novels
    Peter Swiggart
    To say that the entirety of human experience can be a novelist’s theme is to voice an absurdity. But, as Peter Swiggart convincingly argues, Faulkner’s work can be viewed as an extraordinary attempt to transform the panorama of man’s social experience into thematic material. Faulkner’s two-dimensional characters, his rhetorical circumlocutions, and his technical experiments are...
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    33,64 €

  • Symmetry and Sense
    Robert L. Montgomery / Robert LMontgomery
    Few Elizabethans left the image of their personalities cut so deeply into the Renaissance imagination as did Sir Philip Sidney. Widely admired in his own time, Sidney must seem to the modern reader almost universally accomplished. His talents as courtier, diplomat, soldier, scholar, novelist, and poet are history.Almost immediately after Sidney’s death in battle against the Spa...
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    27,06 €

  • A. E. Housman
    A. E. Housman / AEHousman
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    38,47 €