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  • Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned

    Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

    Series series Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
    A collection that subverts the conventions of the traditional fairy tale—to entertain and startle even the most disenchanted reader: "Thoroughly engaging." — Gramarye JournalThe wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales ... Read more

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  • The Misanthrope and Other Plays

    The Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imaginary Invalid“The comedy,” Molière once quipped, “is excellent, and they who deride it deserve to be derided.”Written during the triumphant final years of Molière’s career, these seven works represent the mature flowering of his artistry and ... Read more

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  • Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France

    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources, that friendships between men and women were impossible. Together, the essays in Men and Women Making ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

    This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we all frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold), and gives hundreds of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and ... Read more

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  • The Pink Fairy Book

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    The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

    Edited by Arthur F Kinney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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    Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts

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  • Breaking the Magic Spell

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    Unveiling the Power of Contemporary Myths and Folklore

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine ... Read more

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