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“rose zimbardo”

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  • A Mirror to Nature

    Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660–1732

    by Rose A. Zimbardo ...
    In this provocative study Rose Zimbardo examines a crucial revolution in aesthetics that took place in the late seventeenth century and that to this day dominates our response to literature. Although artists of that time continued to follow the precept "imitate nature," that nature no longer corresponds to the earlier understanding of the term. What had been in essence an allegorical mode came to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko

    by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan, Ana de Freitas Boe, Erik Bond, Keith M. Botelho, VIncent Carretta, Ashley Cross, Laura Doyle, Karen Gevirtz, Derek Hughes, Scott J. Juengel, Thomas W. Krise, Joyce Green MacDonald, Roberta C. Martin, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Jane Milling, Jessica Muns, Holly Faith Nelson, Bill Overton, Leslie Richardson, Laura J. Rosenthal, Margarete Rubik, Laura L. Runge, Jane Spencer, Laura M. Stevens, James Grantham Turner, Rose Zimbardo ...
    Series Book 127 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography.Part ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Smart Student's Guide to the GRE Literature in English Test

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  • Disowning Knowledge

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    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

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    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

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    by C. L. Barber ...
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  • The Expense of Spirit

    Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

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  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Read more

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  • Profiling Shakespeare

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own. They also show the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers and dedicated scholars have pieced together a vision of the ... Read more

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  • Tristram Shandy (Routledge Revivals)

    by Max Byrd ...
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    Max Byrd’s lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne – an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was forty-six when he sat down in January of 1759 to being his literary masterpiece. Aside from his sermons, only two of ... Read more

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  • Along Heroic Lines

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. ... Read more

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