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1	Cry Out and Write: A Feminine Poetics of Revelation more books like this by Edward Peter Nolan add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
2	Dark and Stormy Rides Again: The Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest more books like this by Scott Rice add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $74.41! new only from $90.54!
3	Joysprick more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist see all copies from $31.99! first editions
4	Dickens and the Trials of Imagination more books like this by Garrett Stewart add to wishlist see all copies from $2.57! first editions
5	Attic and Baroque Prose Style: The Anti-Ciceronian Movement more books like this by Morris W Croll add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
6	Herder and the Poetics of Thought: Unity and Diversity in on Diligence in Several Learned Languages more books like this by Michael Morton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| first editions
7	The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham more books like this by Helen Hennessy Vendler add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $14.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form more books like this by Helen Hennessy Vendler add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $19.70! new only from $24.63! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Slender Human Word: Emerson's Artistry in Prose more books like this by William J. Scheick add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mastering the Language of Literature more books like this by Malcolm Hebron add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $19.07! new only from $19.07!
11	Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery more books like this by J C Bramble, Cambridge University Press (Creator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $13.11! new only from $39.99! \| SVS
12	Yeats's Poetic Codes more books like this by Nicholas Grene add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $57.86! new only from $77.89! \| first editions
13	Mark Twain and Metaphor more books like this by John Bird add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $27.75! new only from $50.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Linguistic Influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's Style more books like this by Mary Morzinski add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.55! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Emerson and the Art of the Diary more books like this by Lawrence Alan Rosenwald add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $94.81! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Difficulties of Modernism more books like this by Leonard Diepeveen add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $28.46! new only from $28.46!
17 view cover	Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words more books like this by Simon Palfrey add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $48.39! new only from $60.66! \| SVS
18 view cover	Seeing and Believing: Henry James and the Spiritual World more books like this by Hazel Hutchison add to wishlist "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. see all copies from $14.97! new only from $34.84! \| signed copies \| SVS
19 view cover	Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist more books like this by Lukas Erne add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $47.98! new only from $47.98! \| SVS
20 view cover	Egyptian Writers Between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, Gamal Al-Ghitani more books like this by Samia Mehrez add to wishlist Taking as the basis of her study the premise that the boundaries of history and literature are difficult to define, and that the two disciplines represent two related types of narrative discourse, Samia Mehrez in a series of six essays delves into the work of three leading contemporary Egyptian writers: the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $13.90! \| SVS
21 view cover	Missing Socrates more books like this by Jay Farness add to wishlist see all copies from $2.48! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Shakespeare for the Wiser Sort: Solving Shakespeare's Riddles in the Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1-2 Henry IV, the Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth and Cymberline more books like this by Steve Sohmer add to wishlist William Shakespeare's plays are riddled with passages, scenes and sudden plot twists which baffle and confound the most devoted playgoer and the most attentive commentator. Why, for example, didn't Hamlet succeed to the throne of Denmark at the instant of his father's death? (It's not because the Danish throne was elective.) Why does Chorus in ... see all copies from $65.32! new only from $65.68! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France more books like this by David Cowling add to wishlist Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical buildings was, however, more than a literary fashion: by deploying familiar metaphors of the building in new contexts, writers gained a powerful tool of persuasion. This book explores the complex ... see all copies from $101.89! new only from $160.69! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Andrea Da Barberino and the Language of Chivalry more books like this by Gloria Allaire add to wishlist This study explores the work of Andrea de Barberino (c. 1371-1431), the prolific but elusive Florentine medieval chivalric narrator. It argues for the attribution of two previously indeterminate chivalric romances, and against Andrea's authorship of "Rambaldo". see all copies from $12.94! new only from $86.68!
25 view cover	The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems more books like this by Brian McHale add to wishlist Addressing subjects as wide-ranging as angelology, the court masque, pop art, caricature, the cult of the ruin, hip-hop, Spenser's Irish policy, and the aesthetics of silence, Brian McHale pulls varied threads together to identify a repertoire of postmodernist elements characteristic of the long poems he examines. As critic Jed Rasula explains, ... see all copies from $29.39! new only from $31.20! \| first editions

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