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This introductory guide to one of Middleton and Rowley's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of...
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This book explores several fundamental issues in postcolonial studies through the work of one of its most authoritative, if contentious, figures: Gayatri...
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Webster: The White Devil
Shakespeare Handbooks

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This introductory guide to one of Webster's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene commentary of the play in performance, a brief history of the...
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Multimodal Texts from Around the World
Cultural and Linguistic Insights

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A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies, this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from...
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The Medieval Python
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The New Middle Ages

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No one working today in Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Terry Jones' thought-provoking views....
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The Material Letter in Early Modern England
Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512-1635
Early Modern Literature in History

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The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the...
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Languages at War
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Palgrave Studies in Languages at War

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This study of F. Scott Fitzgerald offers new readings of novels such as The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon. It is an introduction to...
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Graphing Jane Austen
The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

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Why have we evolved to delight in telling stories and listening to them? Can literary meaning be discovered through data? What is more important to the...
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New Voices of Arabia - The Short Stories
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The formation of Saudi Arabia in 1932, with the unification of the two Kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd, not only unified parts of the Arabian peninsula which...

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Next Word, Better Word
The Craft of Writing Poetry

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This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns author of the...
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Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Crime Files

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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis ofthe Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin...
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Linguistic Fieldwork
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Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction

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Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan...
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Creative Screenwriting
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Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems

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Thomas Hardy's first love was poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was 58, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the final years of...
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Shakespeare and the Truth of Love
The Mystery of 'The Phoenix and Turtle'
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

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In 1601, at the height of his career, Shakespeare wrote a 67-line untitled elegy—now frequently known as "The Phoenix and Turtle"—for inclusion, along with...
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How to Write Better Essays
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This book takes the reader carefully through each stage of essay writing from interpretation of the question, to the research, planning, writing, and revision....
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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
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The New Middle Ages

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Medieval Studies and New Media presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," newly revised...
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Applied Conversation Analysis
Intervention and Change in Institutional Talk
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Each of us is highly skilled at designing our turns at talk, and meshing them with those of the people around us. Conversation Analysis (CA) is the study of...
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Enlightening the World
Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History

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In 1777 several of the world's greatest men gathered together to create a book that would champion rationalism, free thinking, and secularism--the...
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Sociophonetics
An Introduction

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Sociophonetics – the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics – is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires both...