
Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos
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Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what...
Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England
Lucia Nigri and Naya Tsentourou
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This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political,...
Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
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Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth...

Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices
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William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing...

Indians Illustrated: The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
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After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings...

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw and Nicholas Grene
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"There are two things necessary to salvation ...money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's...

Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War Through the Classics
Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck
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Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles...

Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature
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Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores...

Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine?
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Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred...

Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory
Christopher Marlow and Evelyn Gajowski
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Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have...