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Messing About in Boats(Hardback)
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25/02/2020
Based on the author''s Clarendon Lectures, this volume studies four water-borne poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie that each study a different aspect of ''...
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Poetry''s Nature(Hardback)
Four Lectures
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05/02/2025
The question at the heart of Poetry''s Nature is "How is poetry a living art?" Based on Stewart''s 2023 Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford, it explores four paradigms that illuminate poetry''s ...
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Bibliophobia(Hardback)
The End and the Beginning of the Book
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10/02/2022
Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing and of books to give readers a fascinating account of why books matter and how ...
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Beckett's Dying Words(Paperback)
The Clarendon Lectures 1990
Oxford University Press
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09/02/1995
Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth: the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this an...
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States of Fantasy(Paperback)
Clarendon Press
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01/10/1998
States of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose's much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English', and for t...
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Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading(Hardback)
Oxford University Press
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26/08/1999
Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to the range of meanings and activities involved in reading, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. In thematically lin...
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds(Paperback)
Ways of Telling the Self
Oxford University Press
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05/02/2004
'Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds' explores stories of transformation, in poetry, fiction, and painting. Myths and tales of metamorphosis, from Leda and the swan to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, comma...
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Strong Women(Hardback)
Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645
Oxford University Press
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19/05/2011
It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times. The four fascinating Catholic women considered here - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394), Margery Kempe of Lynn (c. 1373-c. 1440), ...
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Yeats and Violence(Hardback)
Oxford University Press
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24/06/2010
What happens when civilization crumbles? What apocalyptic events wait in the wings? These are the questions asked by Yeats's poem 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'. Michael Wood explores the life of t...
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Forensic Shakespeare(Hardback)
Oxford University Press
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30/10/2014
Quentin Skinner highlights the use of judicial rhetoric in some of Shakespeare's most famous works, shedding new light on Shakespeare's reading and the intellectual base of his work.
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