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London Journal 1762-1763

London Journal 1762-1763

Author: James Boswell ,  Gordon Turnbull
ISBN: 9780140436501
Format: Paperback
$29.25 $33.61

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Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

Author: Alasdair D.F. Macrae
ISBN: 9780746310762
Format: Paperback
$30.40 $34.95

Norman MacCaig, who died in 1996, was a prolific poet whose later poetry is accessible and popular. This study places Norman MacCaig in his literary and social contexts and aims to convey the vigorous intelligence, pithy humour...

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The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing

The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing

Author: Harry Ricketts
ISBN: 9780958291620
Format: Hardback
$30.45 $35.00

In this sweeping and often surprising anthology, Harry Ricketts casts the net over both much-loved works, such as Lloyd Jones's The Book of Fame on rugby, and long-lost treasures such as Samuel Butler's poem 'The English...

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Well in the Shadow: A Writer's Journey Through Australian Literature

Well in the Shadow: A Writer's Journey Through Australian Literature

Author: Chester Eagle
ISBN: 9780980571776
Format: Paperback
$28.70 $32.95

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This is Enlightenment

This is Enlightenment

Author: Clifford Siskin ,  William Warner ,  Ian Baucom ,  John Bender
ISBN: 9780226761473
Format: Hardback
$111.10 $127.69

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is...

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This is Enlightenment

This is Enlightenment

Author: Clifford Siskin ,  William Warner ,  Ian Baucom ,  John Bender
ISBN: 9780226761480
Format: Paperback
$40.75 $46.82

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is...

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The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in America

The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in America

Author: Michael T. Gilmore
ISBN: 9780226294131
Format: Hardback
$66.65 $76.61

How did slavery and race impact American literature in the 19th century? This book argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers like Frederick Douglass wrestled with the demands for silence and...

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An American Dad

An American Dad

Author: William Eric Williams
ISBN: 9780811216166
Format: Paperback
$29.55 $33.96

A heartwarming appreciation of an extraordinary father.

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The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters

The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters

Author: Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
ISBN: 9780801894602
Format: Hardback
$80.95 $93.00

Provides fresh historical and literary insights into the Harlem Renaissance. This title explores the meaning and power of Harlem theater, literature, and art during the period; probes how understanding of racial, provincial, and...

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The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters

The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters

Author: Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
ISBN: 9780801894619
Format: Paperback
$41.75 $47.95

Provides fresh historical and literary insights into the Harlem Renaissance. This title explores the meaning and power of Harlem theater, literature, and art during the period; probes how understanding of racial, provincial, and...

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Phaenomena

Phaenomena

Author: Aratus ,  Aaron Poochigian ,  Aaron Poochigian
ISBN: 9780801894657
Format: Hardback
$66.15 $76.00

After the Iliad and the Odyssey , the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world. Aratus' Phaenomena is a didactic poem - a practical manual in verse that teaches the reader to identify constellations and...

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The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007

The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007

Author: Hayden V. White ,  Robert Doran
ISBN: 9780801894794
Format: Hardback
$80.05 $92.00

Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Though perhaps best known for his tropological theory of discourse, White's theory of historical writing as narrativization is no less influential. This title...

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Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action

Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action

Author: Susan J. Wolfson
ISBN: 9780801894749
Format: Paperback
$42.60 $48.95

Examines how interaction with other authors - whether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation to literary celebrity - shaped the work of some of the best-known (and less well known)...

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The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007

The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007

Author: Hayden V. White ,  Robert Doran
ISBN: 9780801894800
Format: Paperback
$43.45 $49.95

Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Though perhaps best known for his tropological theory of discourse, White's theory of historical writing as narrativization is no less influential. This title...

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Phaenomena

Phaenomena

Author: Aratus ,  Aaron Poochigian ,  Aaron Poochigian
ISBN: 9780801894664
Format: Paperback
$33.90 $38.95

After the Iliad and the Odyssey , the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world. Aratus' Phaenomena is a didactic poem - a practical manual in verse that teaches the reader to identify constellations and...

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Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action

Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action

Author: Susan J. Wolfson
ISBN: 9780801894732
Format: Hardback
$91.35 $105.00

Examines how interaction with other authors - whether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation to literary celebrity - shaped the work of some of the best-known (and less well known)...

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The Latin Eclogues

The Latin Eclogues

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio ,  David R. Slavitt
ISBN: 9780801895630
Format: Paperback
$33.90 $38.95

Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his masterpiece The Decameron , but his Latin Eclogues are relatively unknown. This title presents an English translation to these pieces, which address the issues of Boccaccio's Italy, including...

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The Latin Eclogues

The Latin Eclogues

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio ,  David R. Slavitt
ISBN: 9780801895623
Format: Hardback
$72.20 $83.00

Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his masterpiece The Decameron , but his Latin Eclogues are relatively unknown. This title presents an English translation to these pieces, which address the issues of Boccaccio's Italy, including...

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The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and America

The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and America

Author: Richard B. Sher
ISBN: 9780226752532
Format: Paperback
$51.85 $59.59

Offers an understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. This title seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel...

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The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation

The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation

Author: Inderjeet Mani
ISBN: 9780803229778
Format: Hardback
$74.05 $85.12

Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. This work uses developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of...

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Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies

Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies

Author: Ian Shapiro ,  Peter Swenson ,  Daniela Donno
ISBN: 9780814740590
Format: Paperback
$34.75 $39.95

Taking a view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this work explores how institutions, individuals, and coalitions contribute to the often surprising twists and turns of...

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Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality

Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality

Author: Daniel Ogden
ISBN: 9780859898386
Format: Paperback
$41.75 $47.95

What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when they represented his...

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Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self

Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self

Author: Gur Zak
ISBN: 9780521114677
Format: Hardback
$152.25 $175.00

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

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Imagining an English Reading Public 1150-1400

Imagining an English Reading Public 1150-1400

Author: Katharine Breen
ISBN: 9780521199223
Format: Hardback
$165.30 $190.00

Argues that the adaptation of habitus for a universal audience supported the development of a vernacular reading public.

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The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David

The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David

Author: J. Randall Short
ISBN: 9780674053410
Format: Paperback
$37.05 $42.56

Comparisons between 'the History of David's Rise' and the Hittite 'Apology of Hattusili', in particular, appear to support this view that the biblical account belongs to the genre of ancient Near Eastern royal apology. This title...

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