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  • Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

    V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

    by John Clement Ball ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric." ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Art of the Epigraph

    How Great Books Begin

    Edited by Rosemary Ahern ...
    For many book Lovers, there is no more pleasing start to a book than a well-chosen epigraph. These intriguing quotations, sayings, and snippets of songs and poems do more than set the tone for the experience ahead: the epigraph informs us about the author’s sensibility. Are we in the hands of a literalist or a wit? A cynic or a romantic? A writer of great ambition or a miniaturist? The epigraph ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Epic Film

    Myth and History

    by Derek Elley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume VIII

    Edited by Professor Peter Rawlings ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by major American writers and poets. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Canterville Ghost with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, which tells the story of a centuries-dead ghost and his vain attempts to terrify the new inhabitants of his ancestral home. This unusual short story blends fantastic and comic elements and parodies ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)

    Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s

    Edited by Laura Dabundo ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Travel - A Friend in the Library

    Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

    by Eva March Tappan ...
    Series Book 2 - A Friend in the Library
    Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In her second volume she explores the various different places these writers travelled to and wrote about. This book is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Touch

    Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker

    by Maureen F. Curtin ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Out of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Neil LaBute

    A Casebook

    by Gerald C. Wood ...
    Series series Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
    Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally accomplished as a playwright. His work extends from the critique of false religiosity in Bash to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Syntactic Change in Medieval French

    Verb-Second and Null Subjects

    by Barbara S. Vance ...
    Series Book 41 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    V2 AND NULL SUBJECTS IN THE HIS TORY OF FRENCH The prototypical Romance null subject language has certain well known characteristics: verbal inflection is rich, distinguishing six per sonlnumber forms; subject pronouns are generally emphatic; and, when there is no need to emphasize the subject, the pronoun is not expressed at all. Spanish and Italian, for example, fit this description rather weIl. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD