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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Upanyāsa rājanaitika	Pārthapratima Bandyopādhyāẏa	On the political novels of Bibhūtibhūshaṇa Bandyopādhyāẏa, 1896?-1950, Bengali author.	OL1080792W
Las provincias contraatacan. Regionalismos y anticentralismo en la literatura peruana del siglo XX	U. Juan Zevallos Aguilar	Aborda el tema del centralismo de estado. El autor analiza aquí cinco proyectos que buscan la inclusión de mestizos e indígenas en el Estado-nación peruano	OL16334716W
Theorizing black theatre	Henry Miller	"This volume reveals a comprehensive view of the Art or Propaganda debate. Among others, this text addresses the works of Langston Hughes, W.E.B Dubois, Alain Locke, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka,…	OL16470023W
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 Soul of Statesmanship	L. Joseph Hebert	Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of sta…	OL18017358W
Damned if you do	Margaret S. Hrezo,John M. Parrish	viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm	OL18574570W
Antony and Cleopatra in context	Keith Linley	"This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting 'Antony and Cleopatra'. How did people think about the world, ab…	OL23227157W
Du théâtre à la liberté	Marie-Laurence Netter	Le théâtre du XVIIIe siècle, derrière des apparences légères, se révèle très contestataire. Au nom de la liberté individuelle et de l'égale dignité de chacun, il dénonce sans relâche le pouvoir arbit…	OL23231794W
Of Philosophers and Kings	Leon Harold Craig	"This work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness as a poet derived even more from his power as a thinker than from his genius for linguistic expr…	OL2507409W
The endless kingdom	David Gay	"The Endless Kingdom studies the dynamics of biblical reading and interpretation in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Milton completed these three major poems after the Restorat…	OL2661787W
Faulkner and the politics of reading	Karl F. Zender	"With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's…	OL4627281W
Writing back	Robin Peel	289 p. ; 24 cm	OL474151W
Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry	Robert Pinsky	"The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sid…	OL482940W
David Edgar, playwright and politician	Elizabeth Swain	vi, 350 pages ; 28 cm	OL5106658W
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars	Anthony Dawahare	"During and after the Harlem Renaissance, the clash of two tremendous intellectual forces - nationalism and Marxism - changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says th…	OL6543251W
Shakespeare's political realism	Tim Spiekerman	"This book provides fresh interpretations of five of Shakespeare's history plays (King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V), each guided by the often criticized assumption that Sh…	OL7796964W
Political Bodies	Alice A. Nelson	"Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on literary works in t…	OL8618256W