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novoOld English Poems of Cynewulf(2013) CYNEWULFOther than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems attest to a powerfully inventive imagination, deeply learned in Christian doctrine and traditional verse-craft. He reveals an expeVezava: Trda47,68 €
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Origins of the English Marriage Plot(2019) O'CONNELL, LISA (UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND)Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English literature and culture as well as femiVezava: Trda152,40 €
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Oxford Student Texts: The Importance of Being Earnest(2015) MOORE, JACKIEOne of a series designed to provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each title includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and contexts.Vezava: Mehka24,81 €
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Ted Hughes and Christianity(2019) TROUPES, DAVID (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets, and this book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Christian faith. It will be of interest not only to Hughes specialists, but anyone interested in how religiouVezava: Trda152,40 €
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Homer: Iliad Book I(2022)An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer's Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts and helping readers toVezava: Mehka39,92 €
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History of Irish Women's Poetry(2021)A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women's poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers, and general readers alike. Coverings all historical periods – early medieval, Renaissance, eighteenth-century, modern and contempoVezava: Trda160,21 €
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Letters from Amherst(2021) DELANY, SAMUEL R.Along with commentary on his own work and the work of other writers, he ponders the state of America, discusses friends who are facing AIDS and other ailments, and comments on the politics of working in academia.Vezava: Mehka23,42 €
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Theatres of Feeling(2019) MARSDEN, JEAN I. (UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT)This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and pVezava: Trda152,40 €
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Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900(2019) WISNICKI, ADRIAN S.Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature examines the impact of non-western cultural, political, and social forces and agencies on the production of British expeditionary literature; it iVezava: Trda259,41 €
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Complete Fables(1998) AESOPIn a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare aVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse(2015) HAMER, RICHARDContains the old English texts of all the major short poems. This anthology provides a window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Letters to Alice(1993) WELDON, FAYA special new edition celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday: blending truth and fiction, the delightful collection of letters Fay Weldon sent her 'niece' about reading Jane Austen, the act of creation and the joys of writingVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Student Companion to John Steinbeck(2002) BURKHEAD, CYNTHIAThis book guides readers through these and other important Steinbeck works, particularly those that are most often taught, including The Pearl (1945), The Red Pony (1933), and significant short fiction.Vezava: Trda65,63 €
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William Blake(2022)This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). The edition features a selection of Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose, and includes an InVezava: Mehka54,51 €
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Joyce's Dante(2016) ROBINSON, JAMES (UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM)This title explores the ways in which James Joyce read the medieval poet Dante Alighieri and appropriated his works in his own writing. Placing Joyce's interest in Dante within his historical context, Robinson shows how Dante enabled Joyce to develop theVezava: Trda173,48 €
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Eardrums(2019) WHITNEY, TYLERExplores the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is an entirely new approach to the study of literature as the interaction of text and sonicVezava: Mehka22,54 €
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On Weight and the Will(2018) MASKARINEC, MALIKACharts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies andVezava: Trda170,24 €
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Ezra Pound: Poet(2018) MOODY, A. DAVID (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF YORK)The third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed biography examines Pound's final years, which saw much personal tragedy for Pound at a tragic point in World history.Vezava: Mehka44,65 €
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Dionysus(1995) OTTO, WALTER F.A sensitive analysis of the spiritual significance of ancient Greek religion.Vezava: Mehka26,60 €