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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups Don't Tell the Grown-Ups Alison Lurie A collection of essays on great children's literature that relates the lives of the authors to the works themselves. OL102904W
Désir nomade Désir nomade Véronique Elfakir La littérature de voyage est ici abordée à travers une approche psychanalytique qui permet de déployer la question du rapport du sujet au désir et à l'inconscient, et qui interroge en fait sa propre … OL11802760W
Damage incorporated Damage incorporated Glenn T. Pillsbury Damage Incorporated: Metallica and the Production of Musical Identity offers an interdisciplinary study investigating a range of topics that intersect in the music and cultural influence of Metallica… OL13664821W
Irish children's literature and culture Irish children's literature and culture Valerie Coghlan,Keith O'Sullivan "Irish Children's Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genr… OL15538101W
Defining the world Defining the world Henry Hitchings Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into… OL15830142W
Can't stop, won't stop Can't stop, won't stop Jeff Chang,D.J. Kool Herc Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization… OL15835141W
Bringing Light to Twilight Bringing Light to Twilight Giselle Liza Anatol "Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has met with astonishing commercial success--not just amongst adolescent girls, but with college students, middle-aged women, and writers and publishers who hope to… OL15999032W
Vergil's Aeneid Vergil's Aeneid Harold Bloom Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. OL16071632W
The Routledge concise history of Canadian literature The Routledge concise history of Canadian literature Lane, Richard J. "<EM>The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature</EM> introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volu… OL16125923W
The libertine's nemesis The libertine's nemesis J. E. Fowler "What is the role of the prude in the 'roman libertin'? James Fowler argues that in the most famous novels of the genre (by Richardson, Crébillon fils, Laclos and Sade) the prude is not the libertine… OL16452838W
ReCalling early Canada ReCalling early Canada Daniel Coleman,Lorraine York,Carole Gerson "ReCalling Early Canada is the first book-length collection of essays to focus on Canadian literary and cultural production prior to WWI. While Canadian literature is often thought to have emerged in… OL16478216W
The Cambridge history of American women's literature The Cambridge history of American women's literature Dale M. Bauer "The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, c… OL16521495W
Homoeroticism in Imperial China Homoeroticism in Imperial China Mark Stevenson,Cuncun Wu "Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the compar… OL16688620W
A companion to Ovid A companion to Ovid Peter E. Knox This companion to Ovid features more than 30 newly commissioned essays dealing with such topics as production, genre, and style. It presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems,… OL16929091W
The English novel in history, 1700-1780 The English novel in history, 1700-1780 John J. Richetti The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re… OL1830261W
Talent is not enough Talent is not enough Mollie Hunter Talent. Person. Discipline. To Mollie Hunter, talent alone is not enough - there must be a disciplined, feeling person behind each book. One of the finest writers of books for young people and the wi… OL1841967W
Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture Bruce Horner,Thomas Swiss This work presents 18 essays by scholars in the field of popular music studies. They collectively address the question: "What are we talking about when we talk about popular music?" Each essay maps t… OL19603304W
Literary theory Literary theory Johannes Willem Bertens This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist… OL20030606W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
The New Oxford Shakespeare The New Oxford Shakespeare John Fletcher,Gabriel Egan,Gary Taylor,John Jowett,Terri Bourus,William Shakespeare Modern critical edition -- Critical reference edition -- Authorship companionship. OL20224308W
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