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1	Dickens and the Trials of Imagination more books like this by Garrett Stewart $11.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $3.59! first editions
2	Joysprick more books like this by Anthony Burgess $35.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $31.50! first editions
3	Cry Out and Write: A Feminine Poetics of Revelation more books like this by Edward Peter Nolan $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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
4	Qualitative Assesment of Text Difficulty: Practical Guide for Teachers and Writers more books like this by Jeanne S Chall $12.96 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Teaches a revolutionary approach to making judgements about the difficulty of a reading selection. see all copies from $12.96! new only from $14.88! \| SVS
5	Attic and Baroque Prose Style: The Anti-Ciceronian Movement more books like this by Morris W Croll $5.00 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
6	Dark and Stormy Rides Again: The Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest more books like this by Scott Rice $23.00 (used softcover, see detail)* 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 $4.20! new only from $90.54!
7	Herder and the Poetics of Thought: Unity and Diversity in on Diligence in Several Learned Languages more books like this by Michael Morton $3.95 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| first editions
8	The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham more books like this by Helen Hennessy Vendler $5.44 (used softcover, see detail)* 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 $5.44! new only from $14.25! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form more books like this by Helen Hennessy Vendler $19.95 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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 $19.95! new only from $24.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Slender Human Word: Emerson's Artistry in Prose more books like this by William J. Scheick $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Mastering the Language of Literature more books like this by Malcolm Hebron $12.39 (new softcover, see detail) 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 $12.54! new only from $12.54!
12	Linguistic Influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's Style more books like this by Mary Morzinski $3.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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 $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Emerson and the Art of the Diary more books like this by Lawrence Alan Rosenwald $25.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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 $98.31! \| SVS
14	Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery more books like this by J C Bramble, Cambridge University Press (Creator) $39.85 (new softcover, see detail) 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 $12.30! new only from $39.85! \| SVS
15	The Difficulties of Modernism more books like this by Leonard Diepeveen $46.17 (new softcover, see detail) 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!
16	The Humor of Irony and Satire: In the Tradiciones Peruanas more books like this by Roy A Tanner $2.73 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $87.04! \| first editions
17	Mark Twain and Metaphor more books like this by John Bird $32.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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
18 view cover	Seeing and Believing: Henry James and the Spiritual World more books like this by Hazel Hutchison $14.97 (used hardcover, see detail)* 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 $34.81! \| signed copies \| SVS
19 view cover	Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist more books like this by Lukas Erne $47.98 (new softcover, see detail) 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	Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words more books like this by Simon Palfrey $48.39 (used softcover, see detail)* 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 $58.75! \| SVS
21 view cover	Yeats's Poetic Codes more books like this by Nicholas Grene $83.59 (new hardcover, see detail) 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
22 view cover	Missing Socrates more books like this by Jay Farness $2.48 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $2.48! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Shakespeare's Analogical Scene: Parody as Structural Syntax more books like this by Joan Hartwig $3.20 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $58.90! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse Into Drama more books like this by John Baxter $15.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $181.20! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jakobson to the Present more books like this by Jean Jacques Weber $107.20 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $80.95! new only from $109.72! \| SVS

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