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Joyce's Comic Portrait
Roy Gottfried
Pubdate: 8/27/2000
In the first book-length study of the comedic in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Roy Gottfried argues that far from being a solemn work, Joyce's early masterpiece is covertly but determinedly comic. Specifically, he looks at the Portrait's |
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Flying Wounded
Susan McCaslin
Pubdate: 8/24/2000
Susan McCaslin's seventh book of poetry is a daring exploration of the disturbance wreaked on a daughter by her mother's ill-treated, then untreated, mental illness and of the daughter's almost miraculous transformation. In her preface, McCaslin makes the |
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Paper: $12.95
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The Finding of the Grail: Retold from Old French Sources
Patricia Terry and Nancy Vine Durling
Pubdate: 8/21/2000
This lively retelling of the medieval Grail legend presents a unified version of the hero Perceval's quest. Illustrated with 34 miniatures from 13th- and 14th-century manuscripts, it offers a concise and coherent version of a myth that has fascinated |
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Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above!
R. J. Schork
Pubdate: 8/14/2000
R.J. Schork examines the function of the countless saints--genuine and bogus, famous and obscure, ancient and modern--who hover over James Joyce's fiction. Schork identifies these saints, traces their inspiration in Joyce's Irish Catholic upbringing, |
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The Remaking of an American
Edited by Elizabeth Banks
Pubdate: 6/15/2000
First published in 1928, Elizabeth Banks' autobiography tells the story of a pioneering, American woman journalist in London at a time when women wrote only for the society & fashion pages. A regular contributor to Punch, & the Daily News, Banks created a |
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Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction
Hildegard Hoeller
Pubdate: 5/21/2000
Most analyses of Wharton's work describe her early triumph as a realist and her decline in the 1920s into sentimental fiction. Hoeller shows that Wharton created a dialogue between the two traditions & used the sentimental voice to express the truth of fe |
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Shaw's Theater
Bernard F. Dukore
Pubdate: 4/30/2000
Examines Shaw's work in the theater and the use of theater in his work. Part I, "Bernard Shaw, Director" was originally published in 1971 and remains the most authoritative work on this aspect of Shaw. Part II: "The Director as Interpreter: |
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The Rose in Contemporary Italian Poetry
Thomas E. Peterson
Pubdate: 4/30/2000
Surveys the use of the rose topos in 20th-century Italian poetry, providing an illuminating cross-section of the work of all the major poets, and the movements in which it appears. Peterson demonstrates the importance of the topos for Italian lyric and |
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Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
Edward Wheatley
Pubdate: 3/1/2000
Drawing on exhaustive study of over 100 manuscripts and several versions of Aesop's fables, Wheatley traces the use of the standard medieval Latin fable collection across Europe, the constructions of Aesop that affected that use, and the scholastic |
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