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The Teaching of George Eliot

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:27:35 +0000

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate and consistent attempt to synthesize in fiction an elaborate and coherent theoretical analysis of the human situation is studied in this book, originally published in 1984.

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Double Lyric (Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:17:32 +0000

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson – and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of ‘double-lyrics’, poems which have ‘become two persons, two ways of expressing and atten..

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Jane Austen Citas

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:39:27 +0000

El ingenio, el romance y la ironía de Jane Austen reunidos en una edición irresistible para lectores y coleccionistas.

Con motivo del legado imperecedero de una de las autoras más queridas de la literatura, Jane Austen Citas reúne una encantadora selección de fr..

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The Dialogue of Writing (Essays in Eighteenth-Century French Literature)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:26:03 +0000

To the extent that writing has long been considered a substitute for "living" conversation, dialogue has been a quintessential metaphor for language as communication. This volume closely analyzes dialogue, both as a literary genre and as a critical principle underlying the works of Jean-Jacque..

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Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile (From Prague to Beverly Hills)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:25:56 +0000

Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of ..

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Montaigne (Regards sur les Essais) (French Edition)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:25:43 +0000

Les Essais de Montaigne sont Poeuvre la plus indispensable pour quiconque veut comprendre l’histoire de la pensee occidentale depuis le 16e siècle (T.S. Eliot dixit). De par la grande diversite des themes explores, cet ouvrage s’adresse a tous ceux (specialistes et amateurs) qui s’intere..

Price: $36.99

The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:25:29 +0000

"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and re..

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The Noble Savage (Allegory of Freedom)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:24:48 +0000

Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and En..

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Difficult Games (A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:24:34 +0000

Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, ye..

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The Educational Legacy of Romanticism

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:24:27 +0000

This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism’s reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a c..

Price: $51.99