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Emily Dickinson
Wiley 1982; US$ 4.95The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems, you explore some 85 poems from one of America's... more...
"Gypsies" in European Literature and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies. more...
Julius Caesar
Wiley 2006; US$ 8.99"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." Now you can appreciate Julius Caesar in plain English. Political intrigue. Ambition. Envy. Conspiracy. Hypocrisy. Betrayal. Assassination. Pride. Suicide. The Ides of March. The tides of war. Julius Caesar makes today's political scene seem boring! If the original text seems Greek (or geek) to you, now... more...
'Since at least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 159.00'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts... more...
The "White Other" in American Intermarriage Stories, 1945-2008
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00A groundbreaking study of the 'white other' figure in American intermarriage literature and film. more...
The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00The 'invisible hand', Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes. more...
(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 145.00Neustadt uses the term political confusion in a number of ways, most broadly to describe the generalized disorientation associated with Latin America in an age of postmodernity characterized by the coexistence of indigenous, mestizo, and European cultures, juxtaposed with the uneven effects of mass media and high technology more...
100 Books for Girls to Grow On
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 11.99An Inspiring Approach to Reading From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Ramona the Pest to Wringer , here are 100 great books guaranteed to stir the imagination, spark conversation, and lead the way to adventure. In 100 Books for Girls to Grow On , Shireen Dodson, author of the acclaimed The Mother-Daughter Book Club , offers a selection of both... more...
100 Books for Girls to Grow On
HarperCollins 2011; Not AvailableAn Inspiring Approach to Reading From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Ramona the Pest to Wringer , here are 100 great books guaranteed to stir the imagination, spark conversation, and lead the way to adventure. In 100 Books for Girls to Grow On , Shireen Dodson, author of the acclaimed The Mother-Daughter Book Club , offers a selection of both... more...









