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Literary Criticism

Full Knowing Reader

Pucci Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194661, Yale University Press, January 2013
286 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In this illuminating book, Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of an active and engaged reader. Pucci considers an array of texts from Homer to Pound, showing that the reader has become empow...

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Literary Criticism

Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Wills Garry

ISBN: PB: 9780300188004, Yale University Press, January 2013
200 pp., 18.9x12.8 cm

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that a Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his...

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Literary Criticism

Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

Simpson David

ISBN: HB: 9780226922355, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger – the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor – carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments abou...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Szobel Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9781611683554, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-le...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Holocaust Literature A History and Guide

Roskies David G., Diamant Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781611683585, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East,...

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Literary Criticism

Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Shannon Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226924175, ISBN: HB: 9780226924168, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Ani...

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Travel

Literary Criticism

Out of Essex Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape

Canton James

ISBN: PB: 9781908493798, Signal Books, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest writing. This book tracks the paths of those literary figures who have ventured into the wilder parts of Essex. So...

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