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Dickens and the Trials of Imagination
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Joysprick
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Cry Out and Write: A Feminine Poetics of Revelation
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Clearly and accessibly, the acclaimed author of Now Though a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer synthesizes the distinctions, differences, and commonalities of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, and Vibia Perpetua--all mystical, religious, and rhetorical heroines--and their male supporters, antagonists, ...
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Qualitative Assesment of Text Difficulty: Practical Guide for Teachers and Writers
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Teaches a revolutionary approach to making judgements about the difficulty of a reading selection.
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Attic and Baroque Prose Style: The Anti-Ciceronian Movement
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Dark and Stormy Rides Again: The Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, named in honor of the Victorian literary has-been Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is the world-famous competition that seeks to find the most atrocious opening senticento a hypothetical lousy novel. This collection of choice entries proves that there are still committed writers out there plumbing their inner souls for ...
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Herder and the Poetics of Thought: Unity and Diversity in on Diligence in Several Learned Languages
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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
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Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic style, Vendler clarifies the essential connection between style and substance in poetry. Opening ...
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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
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Helen Hennessy Vendler
The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one's quarrel with oneself. This is where Helen Vendler's Our Secret Discipline begins. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, ...
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The Slender Human Word: Emerson's Artistry in Prose
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Mastering the Language of Literature
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Malcolm Hebron
"Mastering the Language of Literature" provides students of English Literature with a clear guide to the linguistic analysis of literary texts. Drawing on modern linguistics and traditional approaches, it shows how the study of language provides valuable tools for literary criticism. Important linguistic concepts are explained, and there are ...
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Linguistic Influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's Style
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Mary Morzinski
This linguistic analysis of Conrad's style focuses on the influence of his native Polish. An examination of his writings indicates that some of his more noticeable syntactic choices reflect the semantics inherent in the Polish morphology, such as his unusual placing of adverbs.
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Emerson and the Art of the Diary
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The book's argument begins with sharp refutation of common fallacies about journals and diaries generally, thus establishing a set of requirements for the study of any diary.
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Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery
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A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how Persius' discontent with conventional literary language led him to compress the existing satiric idiom and create a powerful individual style. The author situates Persius' work in the tradition of Roman ...
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The Difficulties of Modernism
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This is the first work to analyze at length how difficulty has been crucial to modern literature and culture. The author argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and popular discussion about difficulty and unintelligibility in art and literature was not coincidental: difficulty allowed modernism to rise, and it was central to how ...
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The Humor of Irony and Satire: In the Tradiciones Peruanas
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Roy A Tanner
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Mark Twain and Metaphor
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Metaphor theory, observes John Bird, is like Mark Twain: both seem simple upon first introduction. Now, in the most complete study to date of Twain's use of figurative language, a veteran Twain scholar tackles the core of his writing and explores it with theoretical approaches that have rarely been applied to Twain, providing new insights into how ...
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Seeing and Believing: Henry James and the Spiritual World
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"Seeing and Believing" looks at Henry James's response to the collapse of religious belief in the nineteenth century, and explores how his novels deal with the problems of experience and consciousness at the heart of this debate.
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Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist
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In this study, Lukas Erne argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. The usual distinction that has been set up between Ben Jonson on the one hand, carefully preparing his manuscripts for publication, and Shakespeare the man ...
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Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words
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Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular investment in both their form and meaning. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show ...
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Yeats's Poetic Codes
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Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to Yeats's occult beliefs, philosophical ideas or political ideology, the focus here is on his poetic ...
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Missing Socrates
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Shakespeare's Analogical Scene: Parody as Structural Syntax
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Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse Into Drama
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First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached.
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The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jakobson to the Present
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Documenting the significant impact of linguistic theory on literary studies, this text comprises a collection of key essays and writings which mark the development of stylistics as a discipline, from its formalistic beginnings to the contextualized, discourse-based approaches practised today. The readings are arranged in eight sections, each of ...
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