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Shakespeare studies November 19, 2009
The Cambridge companion to Seamus Heaney / edited by Bernard O'Donoghue November 17, 2009
The mower : new & selected poems / Andrew Motion ; with an introduction by Langdon Hammer October 28, 2009
How Joyce wrote Finnegans wake : a chapter-by-chapter genetic guide / edited by Luca Crispi and Sam Slote October 27, 2009
Shakespeare survey October 26, 2009
The tempest / William Shakespeare ; the complete play illustrated by Oscar Grillo October 19, 2009
Bearing the mystery : twenty years of Image / edited by Gregory Wolfe October 15, 2009
Interloper : poems / L.S. Klatt September 16, 2009
Setting the record straight : American history in Black & white / David Barton September 11, 2009
Reason, faith, & revolution : reflections on the God debate / Terry Eagleton August 14, 2009
Crossover fiction : global and historical perspectives / Sandra L. Beckett July 29, 2009
The making of a sonnet : a Norton anthology / edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland July 22, 2009
Moral taste : aesthetics, subjectivity and social power in the nineteenth-century novel / Marjorie Garson July 16, 2009
Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / Laura Doyle July 10, 2009
Masked atheism : Catholicism and the secular Victorian home / Maria LaMonaca July 8, 2009
Little women abroad : the Alcott sisters' letters from Europe, 1870-1871 / Louisa May Alcott and May Alcott ; edited by Daniel Shealy July 8, 2009
Due considerations : essays and criticism / John Updike July 8, 2009
Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form / Helen Vendler July 8, 2009
Family life in the age of Shakespeare / Bruce W. Young July 8, 2009
Margaret Fuller, wandering pilgrim / Meg McGavran Murray July 8, 2009
Line by line : how to improve your own writing / Claire Kehrwald Cook July 8, 2009
Writing the future of Black America : literature of the hip-hop generation / Daniel Grassian July 8, 2009
Invisible conversations : religion in the literature of America / Roger Lundin, editor July 8, 2009
The realist short story of the powerful glimpse : Chekhov to Carver / Kerry McSweeney July 1, 2009
Surprised by sin : the reader in Paradise lost / Stanley Fish July 1, 2009
The lion hunter / Elizabeth E. Wein July 1, 2009
The image in print : book illustration in late medieval England and its sources / Martha W. Driver July 1, 2009
Corpus linguistics with BNCweb : a practical guide / Sebastian Hoffmann ... [et al.] July 1, 2009
The nonfictionist's guide : on reading and writing creative nonfiction / Robert Root July 1, 2009
White heat : the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Brenda Wineapple July 1, 2009
Women novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814 : in the voice of our biblical mothers / Elizabeth Kraft July 1, 2009
Gravity and grace : Seamus Heaney and the force of light / John F. Desmond July 1, 2009
Shakespeare as children's literature : Edwardian retellings in words and pictures / Velma Bourgeois Richmond July 1, 2009
'Think on my words' : exploring Shakespeare's language / David Crystal July 1, 2009
The challenges of Orpheus : lyric poetry and early modern England / Heather Dubrow July 1, 2009
Kitchen cooks, plate twirlers & troubadours : writing program administrators tell their stories / edited by Diana George ; foreword by Patricia Bizzell July 1, 2009
Bastard tongues : a trailblazing linguist finds clues to our common humanity in the world's lowliest languages / Derek Bickerton July 1, 2009
A companion to Shakespeare's sonnets / edited by Michael Schoenfeldt July 1, 2009
Fallible authors : Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath / Alastair Minnis July 1, 2009
King Lear / William Shakespeare ; illustrated by Ian Pollock July 1, 2009
All that mighty heart : London poems / edited by Lisa Russ Spaar July 1, 2009
William Shakespeare's The tempest / adapted by Daniel Conner ; illustrated by Cynthia Martin July 1, 2009
Gender and the power of relationship : "United as one individual Soul" in Paradise Lost / Kristin A. Pruitt July 1, 2009
Later manuscripts / Jane Austen ; edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree July 1, 2009
Mark Twain and metaphor / John Bird July 1, 2009
Race, American literature and transnational modernisms / Anita Patterson July 1, 2009
The final martyrs / introduction by Caryl Phillips ; afterword by the Author ; translated by Van C. Gessel July 1, 2009
The poetic zeal / Caleiph Ken'yon Brewer July 1, 2009
The collected prose of Robert Frost / edited by Mark Richardson July 1, 2009
Henry V [videorecording] / Orion Pictures ; Renaissance Films PLC, in association with the BBC and Curzon Film Distributors Ltd. ; adapted for the screen by Kenneth Branagh ; produced by Bruce Sharman ; directed by Kenneth Branagh July 1, 2009
Worshipping Walt : the Whitman disciples / Michael Robertson July 1, 2009
King Lear [videorecording] / a Chestermead production for BBC TV and WGBH/Boston ; produced by Sue Birtwistle ; directed by Richard Eyre July 1, 2009
Douglas Coupland / Andrew Tate July 1, 2009
Othello [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Castle Rock Entertainment presents a Dakota Films/Imminent Films production ; directed by Oliver Parker ; adapted for the screen by Oliver Parker ; produced by Luc Roeg and David Barron ; released by Columbia Pictures July 1, 2009
Much ado about nothing / by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Westine July 1, 2009
Shakespeare retold [videorecording] / 2 Entertain ; BBC ; produced in association with Horsebridge Productions Limited ; BBC Drama & Northern Ireland July 1, 2009
The merchant of Venice : a play / by William Shakespeare ; adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds July 1, 2009
Shakespeare behind bars [videorecording] / produced by Philomath Films ; in association with the Independent Television Service and the BBC ; Hank Rogerson, director and writer ; Jilann Spitzmiller, producer July 1, 2009
Knowing Dickens / Rosemarie Bodenheimer July 1, 2009
Prospero's books [videorecording] / an adaptation of The tempest by William Shakespeare ; directed by Peter Greenaway ; Allarts presents in association with Elsevier-Vendex, Film Four International, Canal +, NHK & VPRO Television an Allarts-Cinâea/Camera One-Penta co-production ; produced by Kees Kasander July 1, 2009
Poetry and apocalypse : theological disclosures of poetic language / William Franke July 1, 2009
The life of Henry the Fifth [videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, David Giles July 1, 2009
Melville : the making of the poet / Hershel Parker July 1, 2009
Othello [videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller July 1, 2009
Holy prayers in a horse's ear : a Japanese American memoir / Kathleen Tamagawa ; edited and with introduction by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef ; with Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Floyd Cheung July 1, 2009
The tempest [videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie July 1, 2009
Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale / edited by Stephen Benson July 1, 2009
Measure for measure [videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Desmond Davis July 1, 2009
Red land, red power : grounding knowledge in the American Indian novel / Sean Kicummah Teuton July 1, 2009
Brick by brick [videorecording] : a civil rights story / a film by Bill Kavanagh ; sponsored project of the New York Foundation of the Arts ; produced and directed by Bill Kavanagh July 1, 2009
Discourse analysis : an introduction / Brian Paltridge July 1, 2009
Goin' to Chicago [videorecording] / produced and directed by George King ; presented by George King & Associates, The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Mississippi July 1, 2009
Beowulf : a new translation for oral delivery / by Dick Ringler July 1, 2009
Malcolm X speaks [videorecording] / History on Video presents July 1, 2009
Milton's Paradise lost : moral education / Margaret Olofson Thickstun July 1, 2009
King [videorecording] : man of peace in a time of war July 1, 2009
Fine just the way it is : Wyoming stories 3 / Annie Proulx July 1, 2009
Voices of civil rights [videorecording] / The History Channel ; A&E Television Networks July 1, 2009
The Dickens industry : critical perspectives 1836-2005 / Laurence W. Mazzeno July 1, 2009
Citizen King [videorecording] / a ROJA Productions film for American experience ; in association with the BBC and WGBH Boston ; produced, directed and written by Orlando Bagwell and W. Noland Walker July 1, 2009
Mrs. Woolf and the servants : an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury / Alison Light July 1, 2009
Malcolm X [videorecording] / Warner Bros. presents in association with Largo International N.V. ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced by Marvin Worth and Spike Lee ; screenplay by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike Lee July 1, 2009
William Shakespeare's King Lear / adapted by Brian Farrens ; illustrated by Ben Dunn July 1, 2009
Barack Obama [videorecording] / produced by Tower Productions, Inc. for the Biography Channel ; producer, Maurice Bisaillon ; writers, Samantha Sanders, Julie Treumann July 1, 2009
The University of Cambridge : an 800th anniversary portrait / editor, Peter Pagnamenta July 1, 2009
War in African literature today : a review / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu July 1, 2009
Milton and ecology / Ken Hiltner July 1, 2009
A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599 / James Shapiro July 1, 2009
Renaissance figures of speech / edited by Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber July 1, 2009
Language learner strategies : thirty years of research and practice / edited by Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro July 1, 2009
Religion, reform, and women's writing in early modern England / Kimberly Anne Coles July 1, 2009
Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery / Glenda R. Carpio July 1, 2009
The poetry of praise / J.A. Burrow July 1, 2009
Always on : language in an online and mobile world / Naomi S. Baron July 1, 2009
Indignation / Philip Roth July 1, 2009
Later medieval English literature / Douglas Gray July 1, 2009
The empty kingdom / Elizabeth E. Wein July 1, 2009
Ezra Pound : poet : a portrait of the man and his work. 1, The young genius, 1885-1920 / A. David Moody July 1, 2009
Is Milton better than Shakespeare? / Nigel Smith July 1, 2009
Eye rhymes : Sylvia Plath's art of the visual / edited by Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley July 1, 2009
The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 / edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett July 1, 2009
John Milton : life, work, and thought / Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns July 1, 2009
Anonymity : a secret history of English literature / John Mullan July 1, 2009
Chaucer, ethics, and gender / Alcuin Blamires July 1, 2009
Film theory : an introduction / Robert Lapsley and Michael Westlake July 1, 2009
Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer July 1, 2009
Civic communion : the rhetoric of community building / David E. Procter July 1, 2009
John Donne, body and soul / Ramie Targoff July 1, 2009
As you like it / by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine July 1, 2009
Darwin and Faulkner's novels : evolution and southern fiction / Michael Wainwright July 1, 2009
The Brontèes in the world of the arts / edited by Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells July 1, 2009
Edith Wharton and the conversations of literary modernism / Jennifer Haytock July 1, 2009
Dostoevsky's polyphonic talent / edited by Joe E. Barnhart July 1, 2009
The Columbia guide to West African literature in English since 1945 / Oyekan Owomoyela July 1, 2009
The world of Shakespeare's sonnets : an introduction / Robert Matz July 1, 2009
Postmodern American literature and its other / W. Lawrence Hogue July 1, 2009
Making writing matter : composition in the engaged university / Ann M. Feldman July 1, 2009
The most learned woman in America : a life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson / Anne M. Ousterhout July 1, 2009
The burdens of perfection : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / Andrew H. Miller July 1, 2009
The art and science of William Bartram / Judith Magee July 1, 2009
The hidden adult : defining children's literature / Perry Nodelman July 1, 2009
Plotting history : the Russian historical novel in the Imperial Age / Dan Ungurianu July 1, 2009
From the fallen tree : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / Thomas Hallock July 1, 2009
Anna Karenina in our time : seeing more wisely / Gary Saul Morson July 1, 2009
Writing genres / Amy J. Devitt July 1, 2009
Imagining Nabokov : Russia between art and politics / Nina L. Khrushcheva July 1, 2009
The tempest / illustrated by Paul Duffield ; [adaptor, Richard Appignanesi] July 1, 2009
White guard / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz ; with an introduction by Evgeny Dobrenko July 1, 2009
Speaking of the Moor : from Alcazar to Othello / Emily C. Bartels July 1, 2009
Why poetry matters / Jay Parini July 1, 2009
Soon come : Jamaican spirituality, Jamaican poetics / Hugh Hodges July 1, 2009
The widows of Eastwick / John Updike July 1, 2009
Modernist heresies : British literary history, 1883-1924 / Damon Franke July 1, 2009
Othello, the Moor of Venice : texts and contexts / William Shakespeare ; edited by Kim F. Hall July 1, 2009
Brothers & beasts : an anthology of men on fairy tales / edited by Kate Bernheimer ; with a foreword by Maria Tatar and an afterword by Jack Zipes July 1, 2009
Religion in the age of Shakespeare / Christopher Baker July 1, 2009
Refiguring the sacred feminine : the poems of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton / Theresa DiPasquale July 1, 2009
Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor / Brad Gooch July 1, 2009
Mark Twain and human nature / Tom Quirk July 1, 2009
William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / edited by Lawrence Danson July 1, 2009
Mark Twain : unsanctified newspaper reporter / James E. Caron July 1, 2009
Poems 1959-2009 / Frederick Seidel July 1, 2009
Lady in the labyrinth : Milton's Comus as initiation / William Shullenberger July 1, 2009
Letters of Ted Hughes / selected and edited by Christopher Reid July 1, 2009
Delivering college composition : the fifth canon / edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey July 1, 2009
Words in air : the complete correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell / edited by Thomas Travisano, with Saskia Hamilton July 1, 2009
Out of style : reanimating stylistic study in composition and rhetoric / Paul Butler July 1, 2009
The secret life of words : how English became English / Henry Hitchings July 1, 2009
Dreaming the English Renaissance : politics and desire in court and culture / Carole Levin July 1, 2009
Shakespeare and co. : Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, and the other players in his story / Stanley Wells July 1, 2009
Eric Rohmer : film as theology / Keith Tester July 1, 2009
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a new verse translation / [translated by] Simon Armitage July 1, 2009
Shakespeare's ideas : more things in heaven and earth / David Bevington July 1, 2009
King Lear : an authoritative text, sources, criticism, adaptations, and responses / William Shakespeare ; edited by Grace Ioppolo July 1, 2009
From the Civil War to the apocalypse : postmodern history and American fiction / Timothy Parrish July 1, 2009
The discourse of broadcast news : a linguistic approach / Martin Montgomery July 1, 2009
Vernacular voices : the rhetoric of publics and public spheres / Gerard A. Hauser July 1, 2009
Theology goes to the movies : an introduction to critical Christian thinking / Clive Marsh July 1, 2009
Phillis Wheatley's poetics of liberation : backgrounds and contexts / John C. Shields July 1, 2009
Nancy Cartwright's philosophy of science / edited by Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer, and Luc Bovens July 1, 2009
A great idea at the time : the rise, fall, and curious afterlife of the Great Books / Alex Beam July 1, 2009
American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history and culture / edited by Jay Prosser July 1, 2009
Romancing the difference : Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the rhetoric of religious fundamentalism / Camille Kaminski Lewis July 1, 2009
Milton and the spiritual reader : reading and religion in seventeenth-century England / David Ainsworth July 1, 2009
Theology after reading : Christian imagination and the power of fiction / Darren J.N. Middleton July 1, 2009
The crossover novel : contemporary children's fiction and its adult readership / Rachel Falconer July 1, 2009
William Shakespeare's Othello / adapted by Vincent Goodwin ; illustrated by Chris Allen July 1, 2009
The unraveling archive : essays on Sylvia Plath / edited by Anita Helle July 1, 2009
Reading Deadwood : a western to swear by / David Lavery, editor July 1, 2009
Devils and rebels : the making of Hawthorne's damned politics / Larry J. Reynolds July 1, 2009
Henry V : the graphic novel : original text version / William Shakespeare ; script adaptation, John McDonald ; Neill Cameron ... [et al.] pencils, inks, colouring, lettering ; editor in chief: Clive Bryant July 1, 2009
Dostoevsky and the Russian people / Linda Ivanits July 1, 2009
Short story criticism April 8, 2009
Milton studies October 29, 2008
The complete works of Robert Browning, with variant readings & annotations. editorial board, Roma A. King, Jr. ... [et al.] October 16, 2008
Poetry criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature / Robyn V. Young, editor September 17, 2008
Contemporary literary criticism August 26, 2008
Nineteenth-century literature criticism August 26, 2008
Twentieth-century literary criticism August 25, 2008
Classical and medieval literature criticism July 1, 2008
The collected works of Langston Hughes / edited with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad July 1, 2008
Anglo-Saxon England April 1, 2008
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 : excerpts from criticism of the works of fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and other creative writers, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations / Dennis Poupard, editor ; Mark W. Scott, associate editor April 1, 2008
Shakespearean criticism : excerpts from the criticism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations April 1, 2008
Dictionary of literary biography documentary series : an illustrated chronicle / edited by Margaret A. Van Antwerp July 18, 2006
The variorum edition of the poetry of John Donne / Gary A. Stringer, general editor November 29, 2005
Twentieth century short story explication : new series ; with checklists of books and journals used / Warren S. Walker April 22, 2004
British writers. Retrospective supplement I / Jay Parini, editor September 27, 2003
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