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1. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
by Ivor Evans (Editor)
A leading authority for over 100 years, this reference book contains more than 20,000 expertly researched definitions for phrases and words most ... More
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2. Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
by Elizabeth Knowles (Editor)
Drawing on Oxford's unrivaled bank of language and quotation online resources, this highly browsable potpourri of allusive terms includes entries ... More
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3. The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions
by Andrew Delahunty (Editor), Sheila Dignen (Editor), Penny Stock (Editor)
Allusions are a colorful extension of the English language, drawing on a collective knowledge of literature, mythology, and the Bible to give a ... More
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4. Dictionary of phrase & fable.
by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase & Fable explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the ... More
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5. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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6. The Facts on File Dictionary of Classical, Biblical, and Literary Allusions
by Abraham H Lass, David Kiremdijian, Ruth M Goldstein
Pandora's Box, a Giaconda smile, the handwriting on the wall--these and myriad other allusions are encountered endlessly in daily communication. This ... More
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7. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
by Camilla Rockwood (Editor), Philip Pullman (Foreword by)
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8. The narrow act; Borges' art of allusion
by Ronald J. Christ
Includes the famous "Paris Review" interview with Borges.
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9. Dictionary of Historical Allusions & Eponyms
by Dorothy Auchter
Short shrift has its origins in the public executions of Renaissance times, when the impatience of the crowd for the main event led to cutting short ... More
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10. Adonis to Zorro: Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion
by Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen
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11. The Literature Student's Survival Kit: What Every Reader Needs to Know
by Ian Littlewood
Who was Jezebel? What was the Wooden Horse? When was the Enlightenment? Who were the Luddites? And what is blank verse? "The Literature Student's ... More
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12. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions
by Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber
List of all editionsA guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. - Explains more than 900 allusions - Entries include examples from today's leading media - ... More
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13. Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
by John Ayto, Ian Crofton
Previous ed. compiled by Adrian Room. London: Cassell, 2002.
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14. Green-Eyed Monsters & Good Samaritans: Literary Allusions in Everyday Language
by Leonard Mann
How King Midas's touch became golden and other stories behind everyday phrases, idioms, and literary allusions Finding silver would not spark the ... More
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15. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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16. The Facts on File Dictionary of Allusions
by Martin H Manser, David H Pickering (Editor)
The Facts on File Dictionary of Allusions provides a comprehensive guide to allusions in the English language. In approximately 4,000 entries, this ... More
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17. The Books at the Wake: A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
by James S Atherton
In"Finnegans Wake "Joyce uses world lit-erature, great and small, sacred and pro-fane, as one of the most important and frequent of his sources. ... More
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18. Christian's Guide to Greek Culture: The Pseudo-Nonnus 'Commentaries' on 'Sermons' 4, 5, 39 and 43 by Gregory of Nazianus.
by Gregory Nazianus, Jennifer Nimmo Smith (Translator), Jennifer Nimmo Smith (Translator)
List of all editionsComposed by Gregory of Nazianus in the fourth century, Sermons 4, 5, 39, and 43 are remarkable for their large number of classical allusions. They ... More
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19. Alexander Pope : The poetry of allusion.
by Reuben A. Brower
"One has to look back to Mark Van Doren's momentous John Dryden for a study of a major English poet which is as ambitious in intention and as ... More
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20. Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
by Professor Lowell Edmunds
How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central ... More
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21. Who, What, When, Where, Why-- In the World of Literature
by Ceil Cleveland
List of all editionsA sample question from this volume: What famous Irish playwright had so sharpa wit that his name is now used to describe anyone with sharp wit?
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22. The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition
by Joseph Pucci
List of all editionsLiterary allusions abound in Western literature, and those who study them tend to focus on the author's intentions to demonstrate erudition, ... More
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23. Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry
by Professor Edward Kamens
List of all editionsA central feature of traditional Japanese poetry (waka) is the use of utamakura -- a category of poetic words, many of which are place-names or the ... More
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24. The MacMillan Dictionary of Contemporary Phrase & Fable
by Philip Howard (Preface by)
List of all editionsThis work of reference explores the origin and meaning of a vast range of words, phrases, and events that have come into use in the English language ... More
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25. Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics
by Philip Thibodeau
List of all editions"Thibodeau examines Virgil's representations, often fanciful and fictitious, of farming and of rural life in general, of the labor and leisure that ... More
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