Literary Criticism - Page 11

The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

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Rilke: The Life of the Work

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Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell

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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

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A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt

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All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything

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The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first...

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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

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Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading

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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

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Revolution in Poetic Language

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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and...

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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

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A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

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The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form

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