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The State Of The Novel : Britain And Beyond

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Dominic Head
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Book, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
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Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contemporary British novel written by an expert in the field. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · English literature · Theory, etc · 21st century · Globalization in literature · Criticism · Great Britain · History · Head, Dominic
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .H435 2008 AVAILABLE

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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924

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Damon Franke
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2008
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In Modernist Heresies, Damon Franke presents the discourse of heresy as central to the intellectual history of the origins of British modernism. The book examines heretical discourses from literature and culture of the fin de si (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Modernism (Literature) · Great Britain · English literature · 20th century · History and criticism · 19th century · Religion and literature · History · 20th century · 19th century · Heretics, Christian · Heresies, Christian, in literature · Paganism in literature · Intellectual life · Franke, Damon, 1968-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR478.M6 F73 2008 AVAILABLE

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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, And The Rhetorical Theory Of Narrative

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James Phelan
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2007
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Phelan contends that focusing on the three main kinds of judgment?interpretive, ethical, and aesthetic?and on the principles underlying a narrative?s movement from beginning to end reveals the experience of reading fiction to be potentially sharable. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Narration (Rhetoric) · American fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Theory, etc · English fiction · Reader-response criticism · American literature · Explication · English literature · Phelan, James, 1951-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.N285 P47 2007 AVAILABLE

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Alice To The Lighthouse : Children’s Books And Radical Experiments In Art

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Juliet Dusinberre
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Book, St. Martin’s Press, 1987
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Carroll, Lewis, · 1832-1898 · Influence · Woolf, Virginia, · 1882-1941 · Technique · Children’s literature, English · History and criticism · English literature · 20th century · Children · Books and reading · History · Children’s literature, American · American literature · English-speaking countries · Literature, Experimental · Dusinberre, Juliet
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR990 .D87 1987 AVAILABLE

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Back To Peace : Reconciliation And Retribution In The Postwar Period

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edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam
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Book, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007
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To focus on this complex subject and its literature provides the opening not only for new pathways to academic teaching and research, but to important interventions in the ways we think about war literature and the many periods that fall under the rubric of ‘interwar.’” –Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University “Back to Peace provides a critical meditation on the contested social and cultural terrains of peacetime, from Dryden’s England to the more recent diaspora of Vietnamese writers in exile. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Peace in literature · American literature · 20th century · History and criticism · English literature · Peace · Social aspects · Culture conflict in literature · Social conflict in literature · Displacement (Psychology) in literature · Soldiers in literature · War and literature · Usandizaga, Aránzazu · Monnickendam, Andrew
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS228.P43 B33 2007 AVAILABLE

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Literature Criticism Online

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Blake And Modern Literature

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Edward Larrissy
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Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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This study will ask why, suggesting that he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Blake, William, · 1757-1827 · Influence · Literature, Modern · 20th century · History and criticism · English literature · Larrissy, Edward
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR4148.I52 L37 2006 AVAILABLE

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Writing Lough Derg : From William Carleton To Seamus Heaney

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Peggy O’Brien
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Book, 1st ed, Syracuse University Press, 2006
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Surveying literary treatments of Lough Derg from William Carleton through Denis Devlin, Patrick Kavanagh, and ultimately to Seamus Heaney, Peggy O?Brien addresses the role of spirituality in an increasingly cosmopolitan, postmodern, post-Catholic Ireland. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English literature · Irish authors · History and criticism · 20th century · 19th century · Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature · Saint Patrick’s Purgatory (Ireland) · In literature · O’Brien, Peggy, 1945-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR8755 .O27 2006 AVAILABLE

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Literature & Place, 1800-2000

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Peter Brown, Michael Irwin (eds)
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Book, Peter Lang, 2006
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Place (Philosophy) in literature · English literature · History and criticism · American literature · 20th century · Space in literature · Geography in literature · Setting (Literature) · Brown, Peter, 1948- · Irwin, Michael, 1934-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR149.P53 L58 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR149.P53 L58 2006	AVAILABLE

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"In The Open" : Jewish Women Writers And British Culture

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edited by Claire M. Tylee
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Book, University of Delaware Press, 2006
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English literature · Jewish authors · History and criticism · Women authors · 20th century · Judaism and literature · Great Britain · History · 20th century · Women and literature · Jewish women · Intellectual life · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature · Jews in literature · Tylee, Claire M., 1946-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR120.J48 I52 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR120.J48 I52 2006	AVAILABLE

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Gypsies & The British Imagination, 1807-1930

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Deborah Epstein Nord
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Book, Columbia University Press, 2006
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Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English literature · 19th century · History and criticism · 20th century · Outsiders in literature · Romanies in literature · Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR468.R63 N67 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR468.R63 N67 2006	AVAILABLE

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British Modernism And Censorship

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Celia Marshik
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Government censorship had a profound impact on the development of canonical modernism and on the public images of modernist writers. Chapters on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Jean Rhys demonstrate that by both reacting against and complying with the forces of repression, writers reaped personal and stylistic benefits for themselves and for society at large. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Modernism (Literature) · Great Britain · English literature · 20th century · History and criticism · 19th century · Censorship · History · Marshik, Celia
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR478.M6 M36 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR478.M6 M36 2006	AVAILABLE

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A Thousand Words : Portraiture, Style, And Queer Modernism

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Jaime Hovey
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2006
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A Thousand Words argues that there is such a thing as queer modernism, and that the (mostly) literary portrait?one of the more prominent forms of experimentalism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writing?functions as one of its most important erotically dynamic aesthetic mechanisms, one modeled on visual portraiture?s relationships of looking between the artists, sitters, and spectators of paintings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wilde, Oscar, · 1854-1900 · Influence · English literature · 20th century · History and criticism · Homosexuality and literature · English-speaking countries · History · Art and literature · American literature · Modernism (Literature) · Description (Rhetoric) · Visual perception in literature · Portraits in literature · Hovey, Jaime
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR478.H65 H68 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR478.H65 H68 2006	AVAILABLE

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Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes : Bloomsbury, Modernism, And China

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Patricia Laurence
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Book, University of South Carolina Press, 2003
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Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. In addition, Laurence?s study includes rarely seen photographs of Julian Bell, Ling, and their associates as well as a reproduction of Ling’s scroll commemorating moments in the exchange between Bloomsbury and the Crescent Moon group. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Xin yue she · English literature · 20th century · History and criticism · Bloomsbury group · Chinese literature · Literature, Comparative · English and Chinese · Chinese and English · Chinese influences · English influences · Modernism (Literature) · Great Britain · China · Laurence, Patricia Ondek, 1942-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR478.B46 L38 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR478.B46 L38 2003	AVAILABLE

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The Paris Review Interviews

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Book, Picador, 2006
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Authors, American · 20th century · Interviews · Authors, English · American literature · History and criticism · English literature · Authorship
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