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	A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: Naturalism is one of the key movements in modern theatre, forming the basis for mainstream plays throughout the modern period and dominating theatrical form today. Christopher Innes begins by giving a...	$46.75
	A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascintating overview of modern theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to exemplify the movement. A must for all stude...	$29.07
	A Stranger in My Own Land: Sofía Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European Fin de Siècle Author: Hooper, Kirsty Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: How a famous author gets lost to history and then rediscovered.	$24.30
	A Symposion of Praise: Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV Author: Johnson, Timothy Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The major themes and motifs of The StarÂ—the birth, life, death, and the immortality of the soul; Eastern philosophies and Jewish mysticism; the relationship between God, world and humanity over time;...	$16.86
	A Tale of the Ragged Mountains Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$1.42
	A Thematic Approach to French Cultural Studies: Love, Sex and Desire in French Literature and Cinema Author: Visoi, Marie-Anne Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF Description: A Thematic Approach to French Cultural Studies: Love, Sex and Desire in French Literature and Cinema introduces a selection of major literary texts and film adaptations to students at the intermediate...	$26.52
	A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation Author: Lemm, Vanessa Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very br...	$46.41
	A. V. Laider Author: Beerbohm, Max Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF Description: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956) was a British caricaturist and parodist. As a young man he was considered quite the wit and spent much time in London society. By 35 he was middle aged and a bit dull. Be...	$2.71
	A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the Mature Work Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$97.45
	Academic Instincts Author: Garber, Marjorie Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls ...	$30.88
	Accessories to Modernity Author: Hiner, Susan Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the "accessory" status o...	$49.40
	Acting in the Night Author: Nemerov, Alexander Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 1...	$33.76
	Acting in the Night Author: Nemerov, Alexander Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 1...	$33.76
	Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater Author: Csapo, Eric Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF Description: Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman EmpirePresents a highly original viewpoint into several...	$125.73
	Adam Bede Author: Eliot, George Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$2.14
	Adventures in Realism Author: Beaumont, Matthew Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF Description: Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the vi...	$97.50
	Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period Author: Strachan, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a separate world from that of the 'literature' of its ti...	$37.44
	Aesopic Conversations Author: Kurke, Leslie Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived f...	$33.09
	Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing Author: McLean, Alice Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB Description: This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a tim...	$138.32
	Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing Author: McLean, Alice Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a tim...	$138.32
	Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France: Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits Author: Carpenter, Scott Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$97.45
	African and African American Images in Newbery Award Winning Titles Author: Wilkin, Binnie Tate Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Since 1922, the Newbery Medal of Honor has been awarded to distinguished works of literature for children. Although African and African American characters appeared in children's books well before the...	$31.20
	After Dickens Author: Glavin, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry in...	$41.60
	After Globalization Author: Cazdyn, Eric / Szeman, Imre Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB Description: In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After esta...	$85.75
	After Southern Modernism Author: Guinn, Matthew Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF Description: A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors Download Plain Text version The literature of the contemporary South might best be u...	$19.50
	After the Dance Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$1.42
	After the Fall Author: Gray, Richard Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB Description: After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Presents the first detailed interrogation ...	$36.03
	After the War: Contents, Introduction, Biographies Author: King, Martha Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF Description: Martha King's introduction to the new generation of Italian women writers she has selected for the Italica press anthology: 'After the War: A Collection of Short Fiction by Postwar Italian Women."	$3.32
	Against The Grain Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF Description: Huysmans was a French novelist noted for his vast scope of language, his sensuous descriptions and satirical wit. His pessimistic outlook showed a deep disgust for modern life. Des Esseintes is the ma...	$3.81
	Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction Author: Budick, Emily Miller Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the wor...	$27.00
	Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama Author: Kermode,Lloyd Edward Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550Ã±1600, including ShakespeareÃs second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-fore...	$89.44
	All Stories Are True Author: Guzzio, Tracie Church Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF Description: In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) enga...	$46.80
	Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790ñ1870 Author: Corbett, Mary Jean Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and non-fictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory,...	$31.20
	Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Author: Heath, Peter Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Explores the use of allegory in the writing of the renowned eleventh-century Muslim philosopher known in the West as Avicenna, paying special attention to the ways he influenced theological, mystical,...	$46.80
	Alternative Shakespeares 3 Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: <P><P>This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, <EM>Alternative Shakespeares</EM> and <EM>Alternative Shakespeares 2</EM>, to identify and ex...	$36.35
	Alyosha the Pot Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$1.42
	American Audacity Author: Benfey, Christopher Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Boo...	$25.36
	American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900 Author: III, James Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, a...	$23.40
	American Flaneur: The Cosmic Physiognomies of Edgar Allen Poe Author: Werner, James V. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relatio...	$138.32
	American Hungers Author: Jones, Gavin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own ri...	$28.67
	American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880ñ1995 Author: Barrish, Phillip Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Focusing on key works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of...	$28.08
	American Literature and Culture 1900-1960 Author: McDonald, Gail Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF Description: This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it “big”, “new”, “rich”, and R...	$97.50
	American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000 Author: Clune, Michael W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The years after World War Two have seen a widespread fascination with the free market. Michael W. Clune considers this fascination in postwar literature. In the fictional worlds created by works rangi...	$73.84
	American Literature in Context after 1929 Author: Yannella, Philip R. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF Description: This book situates American literature from the Great Depression to the present day in its historical contextExplores the issues that engaged American writers from 1929 to the presentDraws on a r...	$92.58
	American Literature in Context to 1865 Author: Castillo, Susan Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB Description: American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonst...	$92.58
	American Notes Author: Kipling, Rudyard Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$2.14
	American Pacificism Author: Lyons, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: This study provides a provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians, from the nineteenth century to the present. Arguing that imperial fantasies have glossed o...	$124.80
	American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman Author: Matthiessen, F. O. Publisher: ACLS Humanities E-Book Format: Adobe ePUB Description:	$7.14
	American Scream Author: Raskin, Jonah Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full cr...	$18.55
	American Sensations Author: Streeby, Shelley Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime nov...	$27.00