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'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'
Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-09
Format(s) : ePub
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'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'
Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-09
Format(s) : PDF
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Written by experienced A-level examiners and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you to get the grade you...
Editeur : Philip Allan
Parution : 2010-07-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-04-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-02-25
Format(s) : PDF
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Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676.This was a tumultuous period of political, religious, and linguistic contestation that encompassed the key...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-01-28
Format(s) : PDF
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This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analyzing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, David Duff examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature',...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-12
Format(s) : PDF
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This wide-ranging and original book reappraises the role of genre, and genre theory, in British Romanticism. Analyzing numerous examples from 1760 to 1830, David Duff examines the generic innovations and experiments which propel the Romantic 'revolution in literature',...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-10-08
Format(s) : PDF
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Milton's Words approaches John Milton in both an old and a new way, focusing on his genius with words: keywords - the keys to a text or a theory; words of sexual avoidance and distress; words of abuse; words of privilege because 'Scripture'; big learned words; and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-09-24
Format(s) : PDF
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This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-05-21
Format(s) : PDF
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Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. The book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, arguing that its...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-03-26
Format(s) : PDF
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The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage.
Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-03-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Edmund Spenser, Selected Letters and Other Papers provides the first published text of the diplomatic and personal papers written, copied, and handled by Spenser during his years of secretarial service and colonial planting in Ireland, 1580-1589. These manuscript...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-03-20
Format(s) : PDF
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Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-02-26
Format(s) : PDF
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Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-02-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so many notes copied...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-01-29
Format(s) : PDF
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This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his 'ambivalent' allegiance in the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-11-20
Format(s) : PDF
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