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Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the "e;composer's singer."e;American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were...

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Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately inv...

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The first chronological overview of O'Connor criticism from the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952 to the present.Flannery O'Connor is one of the most widely read, discussed, and taught of all American authors. She is immensely po...

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In the second half of the twelfth century Rocamadour developed an international reputation as a centre of devotion to the Virgin Mary, drawing pilgrims from Spain, Italy, Germany, England and the Latin East as well as France, as witnessed by the 1...

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By examining the history of the Potts-Johnsons, an immigrant Saro family from Sierra Leone living in the Port Harcourt region of Nigeria from roughly 1912-1984, this study reviews the migration history of the Saro in the Niger River delta. The wor...

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Bestiaries are a particularly characteristic product of medieval England, and give a unique insight into the medieval mind. Richly illuminated and lavishly produced, they were luxury objects for noble families. Their three-fold purpose was to prov...

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The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of "e;nobility"e;, its relationship with the late Rom...

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Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This s...

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Medieval Futures explores the rich variety of ways in which medieval people imagined the future, from the prophetic anticipation of the end of the world to the mundane expectation that the world would continue indefinitely,permitting ordinary huma...

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Seven papers in this volume deal with England, six (four of them in French) with northern and western France. One major focus is on the endowment and building of churches in England from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the early thirteenth century;...

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A must for any self-respecting library. NOTES AND QUERIES A standard work of reference. ENGLISH STUDIESWith the appearance in 1999 of the very extensive interim volume covering the years 1978 to 1992, the Arthurian Bibliography became once more th...

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The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision...

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A collection of essays which examine the domestic and colonial history of Britain in the period between the Hanoverian succession and the early-19th century. After two historiographical surveys the contributions go on to discuss issues at the fore...

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This study explores the history of critical approaches to Old English literature. Its special focus is the Old English epic, "Beowulf", but it ranges widely over Old English verse and prose in general, post-Anglo-Saxon English, and numer...

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One of a series of annotated bibliographies of Old and Middle English literature. This volume lists works where analysis of language is employed, to achieve a clearer understanding of aspects of medieval literature. Chaucer is omitted, being the s...

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This collection contains 34 papers from the 1992 Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. They cover all aspects of medieval European courtly literature (including Latin), from representations of sexuality in early texts to the in...

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An invaluable collection of primary sources for the study of eighteenth-century convent life.Between 1728 and 1744 the Catholic lawyer Mannock Strickland (1673-1744) acted as agent for English nuns living on the Continent, including St Monica's, L...

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Leo Black's memoir not only recalls 'the Glock Era and After' in a series of informative, poignant, witty and judicious vignettes, but is also a key text for understanding one of the great ages of British music.From 1959 to 1972 William Glock, as ...

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The psychiatrist John Cordingly examines twelve operatic heroes under six sub-categories of personality disorder, placing them within the histories of mental disorder, sexuality, Byronism and their cultural contexts.The retired psychiatrist and fo...

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Fresh essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.No other writer of German-language literature in the 20th century has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly...

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Fresh essays on the works of the most significant -- and readable -- German Baroque author.Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-1676) is the most significant (and still readable) author of seventeenth-century German novels. His Aben...

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New essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic.The legend of Tristan and Isolde -- the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love -- achieved...

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A collection of new essays treating the most important aspects of the work of the most famous late Romantic, Heinrich Heine.As the most prominent German-Jewish Romantic writer, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) became a focal point for much of the tensio...

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New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation.Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex and unique writer has risen to the point that he ...

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New, specially commissioned essays on representative works of 19th-century German realism.This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from the period 1848 to 1900, the period of its domina...

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Collection of sixteen German novellas from the 17th to the 20th century in the original language, showing the wide range of the genre, and fully glossed. This new collection, intended for the student and the interested general reader of German ali...

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A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers.Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before...

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New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary ca...

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A fresh collection of essays on the work of one of the leading figures of the Viennese fin de siecle.This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly...

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