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1. | | | 2. | | | 3. | | Title: "Mademoiselle Irnois" and other stories Author: Gobineau, Arthur, comte de 1816-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: LiteratureSimilar Items | 4. | | Title: Precious nonsense: the Gettysburg address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Twelfth night Author: Booth, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: LiteraturePublisher's Description: Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen Booth suggests that the greatest appeal of our most valued works may be that they are, in one way or another, nonsensical. . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | LiteraturePublisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Voices of the song lyric in China/ Author: Yu, Pauline 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | ChinaPublisher's Description: This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric ( tz'u ) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of l . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Chaucerian play: comedy and control in the Canterbury tales Author: Kendrick, Laura Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature | English LiteratureSimilar Items | 8. | | Title: The chances of rhyme: device and modernity Author: Wesling, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Literature | English LiteratureSimilar Items | 9. | | | 10. | | Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Dryden and the tradition of panegyric Author: Garrison, James D Published: University of California Press, 1975 Subjects: Literature | English LiteratureSimilar Items | 13. | | Title: The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Author: Creeley, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popular and often controversial force in American poetry and letters. His essays, written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, show a poet deeply touched by and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation. His . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | | 16. | | Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Dwelling in the text: houses in American fiction Author: Chandler, Marilyn R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of "house tours" through American novels, beginning with Thoreau's Walden and ending . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Behind the scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the struggle for the Abbey Theatre Author: Frazier, Adrian Woods Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Poetry | TheatrePublisher's Description: Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet Author: Martín, Adrienne Laskier Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: Until now the great renown of Cervantes as a prose humorist has eclipsed his skill as a humorous poet. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet amply illustrates the comic genius of Cervantes the poet, and at the same time establishes criteria by which comic poetry can be analyzed and evaluated.Adrienne M . . . [more]Similar Items |
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