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Julian Richards,
Shakespeare in the Theatre Glen Byam Shaw and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Glen Byam Shaw was a pivotal but overlooked figure in the development of Shakespearean performance in 20th century Britain. This book serves as the first full analysis of Shaw's work as Director of the Sh…

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Sarah Bowden
Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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Asiya Bulatova
Viktor Shklovsky's Involuntary Modernism

One of the founders of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky is a key figure within twentieth-century literary history. This book explores Shklovsky's participation in early-Soviet debates about the relatio…

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Deborah Pike, Ann Vickery
Modernism Beyond the Canon

Modernist navigations with modernity are diverse and culturally nuanced. Taking students and researchers beyond the narrow canon of 'great modernists', Modernism Beyond the Canon is an essential introduct…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Chris Holmes,
Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known princip…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Oliver Rendle
Cosmic Humour and Philosophical Pessimism in Contemporary Culture

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour, exploring the popularity of this comedic form across Anglophone culture since 1969 …

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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of BelovedToni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious.In a dazz…

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Kim Wheatley
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to …

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Rebecca Davis
Graceful Narratives

Graceful Narratives argues that the concept of grace functions as a form of literary theory in late-medieval English texts, generating dilated, deliberative narratives that resist linear plotting and crea…

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Women Romantic Poets

'Another May new buds and flowers shall bring; Ah! why has happiness---no second Spring?'The period between 1780 and 1840 was a tremendously rich one for the production of poetry. Everyone from labourers …

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C M van der Keur
Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes the text and facing English translation, along with notes on syntax, textual criticism, styl…

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Louise Martin, Lou&,
Bilitis

In 1894, Pierre Louÿs unveiled Les Chansons de Bilitis to the French literary world, presenting it as a newly discovered translation of ancient Greek poetry composed by a contemporary of Sappho. The schol…

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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Ronald C Egan
Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi

In Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi, Ronald Egan pays special attention to a neglected aspect of Su Shi's literary work, those prose forms that had traditionally been considered less pr…

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Natalie Roxburgh
The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues …

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Andrea Brondino
Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming

Using the works of prominent Italian authors of both fiction and nonfiction, this book challenges the established critical accounts of hybrid narratives and examines the shared influence in terms of style…

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Thomas Leonard-Roy
Writerly Hate in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The eighteenth century was the great age of hate-writing and hate-reading. Hatred, contempt, resentment, and disdain were immensely generative feelings for authors in Britain, written into not only malici…

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