Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its...
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature
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References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred...
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...
Sentimental Education
Helen Constantine and Gustave Flaubert
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'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse...
The Art of Unpacking Your Life
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Twenty years ago, they were the best of friends. When Connie invites her university gang on the...
The Cinema of Errol Morris
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The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes...
The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest, Peter Gizzi and Hadley Guest
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One of the most notable members of the New York School-and its best-known woman-Barbara Guest began...
The Conquest of Plassans
Helen Constantine and Emile Zola
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'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has...
The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau
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The book presents a re-reading of H. G. Wells' novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" as a key to...
The Odyssey: Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell
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The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight...