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The Poetry of War Add to basket

The Poetry of War


  • James Anderson Winn
  • Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while mourning the victim; they honor the dead while raising deep questions about the meaning of honor.
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Think On My Words</a><br />Exploring Shakespeare's Language Add to basket

Think On My Words
Exploring Shakespeare's Language


  • David Crystal
  • For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare’s life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare?
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The Book of Memory
A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture


  • Mary Carruthers
  • Mary Carruthers’s classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800–2000 Add to basket

The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800–2000


  • Justin Quinn
  • Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world’s most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney.
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The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot


  • Nancy Henry
  • As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies


  • Penny Gay
  • Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences?
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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative Add to basket

The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative


  • H. Porter Abbott
  • What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theater, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Musical


  • Edited by William A. Everett
  • Tracing the development of the musical on both Broadway and in London's West End, this updated Companion continues to provide a broad and thorough overview of one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jung Add to basket

The Cambridge Companion to Jung


  • Edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath
  • This new edition represents a wide-ranging and up to date critical introduction to the psychology of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis.
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Studying English Literature
A Practical Guide


  • Tory Young
  • Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so.
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