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  • De la natural hystoria de las Indias
    Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
    The first edition of De la natural hystoria de las Indias (Toledo, 1526) is here reproduced in facsimile in honor of Professor Sterling A. Stoudemire. Oviedo, an official chronicler of the Indies, describes in naive but charming fashion the dazzling variety of new flora and fauna as well as the customs of the Indians he observed in the Caribbean Islands. 3 ...
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    38,71 €

  • Today the Struggle
    Katharine Bail Hoskins
    Many writers, from Aristophanes to Joseph Heller, have written about politics. But at certain periods in history, often at times of conflict and turmoil, writers have consciously used their literary talents to support or oppose a specific cause. The 1930s, a decade of widespread social and political breakdown, was such a period.Today the Struggle examines the political involvem...
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    40,21 €

  • Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England
    David DeLaura
    Hebrew and Hellene explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture. Fundamentally concerned with the humanistic vision of Arnold and Pater, especially as they adapted the traditional religious culture to the needs of their gene...
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    50,94 €

  • The Mythmaker
    Carter Wheelock
    Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabl...
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    26,82 €

  • Hemingway’s Nonfiction
    Robert O. Stephens / Robert OStephens
    This study explores Hemingway’s newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews. In doing so, it throws a new, oblique light on what has usually been regarded as his major work--his short stories and novels.Originally published in 1968.A UN...
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    76,77 €

  • Shakespeare’s Romantic Comedies
    Peter G. Phialas / Peter GPhialas
    Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts, and the meaning that the action dramatizes.Originally published in 1966.A UNC Pr...
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    64,01 €

  • D.H.Lawrence
    Colin Clarke
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    52,42 €

  • T.S.Eliot
    Bernard Bergonzi
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    54,88 €

  • Dark Symphony
    This anthology includes noteworthy pieces by such esteemed African-American authors as Frederick Douglass, Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, and many others. ...
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    26,30 €

  • Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism
    Martin Ray Adams / Unknown
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    121,20 €

  • The Road to Hel
    Hilda R. Ellis / Hilda REllis / Hilda Roderick (Ellis Davidson
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    69,53 €

  • The Practice of Criticism
    D. H. Rawlinson / David H. Rawlinson / David HRawlinson / DHRawlinson
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    28,54 €

  • The Reading of the Canterbury Tales
    T. Whittock / Trevor Whittock / TWhittock
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    42,81 €

  • Elizabethan Stage Conditions
    M. Bradbrook / M. C. Bradbrook / MBradbrook / MCBradbrook
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    55,94 €

  • A Selection from Scrutiny 2 Volume Set
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    74,95 €

  • A Selection from Scrutiny
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    36,80 €

  • The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James
    Dorothea Krook
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    32,39 €

  • Desperate Faith
    Howard Harper
    This book traces the developing view of the human conditions through the major works of these five writers. The method is inductive, and the works are seen as a record of human experience not as an illustration of philosophical theory. A final chapter places them in the larger perspective of traditional American fiction.Originally published in 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition ...
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    64,52 €

  • Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go
    Philip Durham
    Thematically, Chandler’s work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital ...
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    45,03 €

  • Balcony Stories
    Grace King
    ’The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else is. It never leaves our consciousness. ...
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    40,90 €

  • The Notebooks of Andre Walter
    André Gide
    This debut work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature. André Gide, one of the masters of French literature, captures the essence of the philosophical Romantic in this profoundly personal first novel, completed when he was just twenty years old. Drawing heavily on his religious upbringing and private...
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    13,50 €

  • Sermon Joyeux and Polemic
    William W. Heist / William WHeist
    Two anonymous French publications indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the decaying status and some new uses of the legend, catching the Renaissance in the course of its transition from medieval to modern styles and ways of thought. ...
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    37,96 €

  • Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes
    Laurent de Premierfait
    For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent de Premierfait’s French version of De Casibus virorum illustrium (Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes). ...
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    44,80 €

  • The Poetics and the Poetry of René Char
    Virginia A. La Charit� / Virginia ALa Charité
    This study is based on a detailed analysis of the textual variants and revisions that reflect the poet’s linear development from his poetic debut in 1922 to the present. It shows how his poetry is mainly devoted to thinking about poetic creation, while his aphorisms are reflections on nature and the role of the poet. ...
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    44,72 €

  • The Lay of Guingamor
    Sara Sturm
    In her study of Marie de France’s twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Christian morality thus upending previous scholarship about this medieval work. ...
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    38,74 €

  • An Inquiry into Local Variations in Vulgar Latin
    Paul A. Gaeng / Paul AGaeng
    This study is an attempt to furnish data for our knowledge of Vulgar Latin culled from the vocalism of Latin Christian inscriptions, particularly of the funeral type, found in those areas of the Western Roman world where Romance speech developed, and to shed some light, by means of a comparative study, on the controversial issue as to whether linguistic features that differenti...
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    44,56 €

  • Lord Byron’s Cain
    Truman Guy Steffan
    Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron’s notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen 'from Kentish town to Pisa.' From 1821 to 1830 more was printed about its eighteen hundred alarming lines than ...
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    67,06 €

  • Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century
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    25,75 €

  • Swifter Than Reason
    Douglas Day
    This is the first full-length assessment of the poetry and criticism of Robert Graves. Concentrating on his development as a poet from his earliest efforts in 1916 to his most recent collection and using his critical writings as commentaries on that development, it provides a needed survey of Graves’s career.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press...
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    64,33 €

  • T.S. Eliot
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    52,40 €


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