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The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem

by Ulrich Broich

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 This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody, satire and occasional poetry. The second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry.
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The Symbolist Tradition In English Literature - A Study Of Pre-Raphaelitism And Fin De Siecle

by Lothar Honnighausen

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 This study of both literature and the visual arts is comparative in nature, attempting to establish an English symbolist tradition as part of an international development linking the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally published by Cambridge in 1988, Lother HÃ¶nnighausen's book includes illustrations and a survey of critical works.
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Parentage And Inheritance In The Novels Of Charles Dickens

by Anny Sadrin

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 Dickens's plots, often dismissed as conventional or cheaply sensational, are here considered as the embodiment of Dickens's preoccupation with rituals of succession. Sadrin shows how the simple pattern of quest for father develops in Dickens's later novels into an extended exploration of the triple inheritance of looks, name and property.
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Walter Pater - The Aesthetic Moment

by Wolfgang Iser

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 First published in German in 1960, this text places the English critic, essayist and novelist in a philosophical tradition whose major exponents were Hegel and Coleridge, at the same time showing how Pater differed crucially from these thinkers to become representative of a late Victorian culture critically poised in transition between Romanticism and Modernism.
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The Fall Of Women In Early English Narrative Verse

by Gvtz Schmitz

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 The image of the 'fallen woman' was a common one in Elizabethan literature. This 1990 study, translated from the original German by the author, deals with an unconventional aspect of the motif; the genre of 'complaint' in which writers enabled women to put their own case, stressing private rather than public virtues.
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Romantic Verse Narrative - The History Of A Genre

by Hermann (Universitat Mannheim, Germany) Fischer

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 Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This translation, extensively revised and updated, makes Hermann Fischer's acclaimed study available for the first time in English.
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The Middle English Mystery Play - A Study In Dramatic Speech And Form

by Hans-Jurgen Diller

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 The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. This major study seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of speech and dramatic form in the plays.
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The Middle English Mystery Play - A Study In Dramatic Speech And Form

by Hans-Jurgen Diller

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 The mystery plays of medieval England have traditionally been analysed in ways which centre on the texts and their religious significance. This major study seeks to recover their dramatic potential by focusing on the function of speech and dramatic form in the plays.
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The Theory And Analysis Of Drama

by Manfred Pfister

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 Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
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Parentage And Inheritance In The Novels Of Charles Dickens

by Anny Sadrin

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 Dickens's plots and the process of succession, based on the inheritance of looks, name and property.
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The Symbolist Tradition In English Literature - A Study Of Pre-Raphaelitism And Fin De Siecle

by Lothar Honnighausen

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 Lother Honnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Oscar Wilde - The Works Of A Conformist Rebel

by Norbert Kohl

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 Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical Ã…â€œuvre of Oscar Wilde.
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Pesticide Impact On Stream Fauna - With Special Reference To Macroinvertebrates

by R. C. Muirhead-Thomson

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 This book, first published in 1987, deals with pesticide contamination of running waters.
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Valuation In Criticism And Other Essays

by F. R. Leavis

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 This volume gathers together some of F. R. Leavis's earliest work with the things he was working on before his death.
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The Fall Of Women In Early English Narrative Verse

by Gvtz Schmitz

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 This 1990 study examines the genre of 'complaint' in the motif of the 'fallen woman' - a common image in Elizabethan literature.
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Wonder Beasts - Tales And Lore Of The Phoenix, The Griffin, The Unicorn, And The Dragon

by Joe Nigg

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 This book presents tales of mythical beasts, offering primary sources (e.g., the writings of Herodotus, original fairy tales, poems) within the context of background material and commentary.
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Oscar Wilde - The Works Of A Conformist Rebel

by Norbert Kohl

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 Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical Å"uvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.
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The Scientific Papers Of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

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 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886â€"1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. Across these four volumes, published between the years 1958 and 1971, Batchelor has collected together almost 200 of Sir Geoffrey's papers. This volume examines aerodynamics and the mechanics of projectiles and explosions.
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The Scientific Papers Of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

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 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. Across these four volumes, published between the years 1958 and 1971, Batchelor has collected together almost 200 of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's papers. The papers in this first volume examine the mechanics of solids.
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The Holstein Papers - The Memoirs, Diaries And Correspondence Of Friedrich Von Holstein 1837â€“1909

by Friedrich Von Holstein

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 Friedrich von Holstein (1837â€"1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office. One of two volumes that contains a rich source of primary material, Volume 3 begins with letters written to him at the very beginning of his diplomatic career by his father, and continues to the end of 1896.
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Authorised Version Of The English Bible, 1611: Volume 2, Joshua To Esther - Joshua To Esther

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 Cambridge scholar William Aldis Wright's edition of the King James Bible, the most widely accepted rendering of the Scriptures for four hundred years.
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The Rise Of The English Street Ballad 1550â€“1650

by Natascha Wurzbach

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 Natascha WÃ¼rzbach's 1981 study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected. Attention is focused on the social and cultural conditions which accompanied its development. It is also looked at as a literary form.
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The Long Winter - One Man'S Journey Through The Darkness Of Foster Care

by Paul L. Owen

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Physics, Metaphysics, And God - Third Edition - A Perspective On Physics Yielding To Metaphysics

by Jack W. Geis

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