Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
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In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in...

Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
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While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer...

Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in Their Own Words
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Don't Ask Me What I Mean is a comprehensive guide to the last fifty years of British poetry...

George Herbert: Poems
George Herbert and Jo Shapcott
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of...

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Donna King and Carrie Lee Smith
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Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional...

Oedipus at Colonus
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Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and...

Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramon and Zenobia Jimenez
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The translations by Juan Ramon Jimenez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for...

The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions
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As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square...

Tidings of Comfort and Joy: A Christmas Feast of Faith and Fun
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Pam Rhodes is best known as the familiar face of the BBC's Songs of Praise, and here she brings...
Why is Your Axe Bloody?: A Reading of Njals Saga
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Nijals saga the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story...