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The Wallace

By: Blind Harry

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Edited and Introduced by Anne McKim. This extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries to come. Looking back to the days of the Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry’s poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the vagaries of war and the brutal realities of battle, wounding and betrayal, all seen from the point of view of the troops in the field. The fruit of many years of scholarship, Anne McKim has produced what is unquestionably the definitive edition of this truly epic work. ‘The story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.’ Robert Burns

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Canongate Books

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1847674690

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A Short History of English Literature

By: Harry Blamires

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A Short History of English Literature

By: Harry Blamires

This book guides through some six centuries of English literature, beginning with Chaucer's time, and goes on to analyse the background, interconnections and major achievements of individual writers in each period. It is useful to the student of English literature and to the general reader.

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Routledge

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1000153258

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9781000153255

Contexts of Criticism

By: Harry Levin

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Contexts of Criticism

By: Harry Levin

15 lectures on novelists and literature, ranging from broad problems of critical theory and esthetic formulation to specific analyses of forms and texts.

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Harvard University Press

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0674167007

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Index of Mediaeval Studies Published in Festschriften, 1865 - 1946

With Special Reference to Romantic Material

By: Harry F. Williams

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Index of Mediaeval Studies Published in Festschriften, 1865 - 1946

With Special Reference to Romantic Material

By: Harry F. Williams

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

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Univ of California Press

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0520349210

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9780520349216

The Six from Nowhere

The Screwball Circus Mysteries, Vol. 9

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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The Six from Nowhere

The Screwball Circus Mysteries, Vol. 9

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil Gaiman Who are those six mysterious figures that are looming outside the owner's trailer of Angus MacWhorter's Mammoth Motorized Shows? And why would they want the copy of a pulp magazine that he bought for ten cents? The answers have something to do with a gangster, the tong of the Lean Grey Rats, and a group calling itself the Society of Retired Clergymen.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479425575

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A Gallery of Mirrors

Observations on Novelists and Poets

By: Harry Levin

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A Gallery of Mirrors

Observations on Novelists and Poets

By: Harry Levin

The essays in this classic volume range from broad concerns with critical theory and aesthetic formulation to specific analysis of forms and texts. Levin discusses such matters as the symbolic interpretation of literature, the development of literary criticism during the past half-century, European attitudes toward contemporary American writers, and re-evaluations of Joyce, Proust, Balzac, Cervantes, Melville, and Hemingway. Because Levin is both a learned scholar and imaginative critic, there is no comparable book that offers the wit, taste, and learning one finds in these pages. His historical and comparative approaches to literary theory enable Levin to place a given work precisely by relating it to other works and manifestations of culture. World literature is not the province of this work. But Levin views it as the horizon against which our own traditions may be measured. Just as anthropologists discover similar processes working through diverse cultures, so through can we glean understanding of common patterns through the analysis of world literature, our own peculiarly specialized branch of the science of man. The effect of convention, in shaping the extent to which literature may be conceived as an institution, has been widely discussed. A Gallery of Mirrors raises theoretical questions that touch the methodology of humanistic scholarship, with regard to other disciplines, and the status of art, with regard to other modes of knowledge. With changing schools of critical thought, Levin relies considerably on semantics as a precision instrument for defining concepts in the terms of those for whom they were most meaningful.

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Routledge

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1351535544

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9781351535540

A History of Literary Criticism

By: Harry Blamires

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A History of Literary Criticism

By: Harry Blamires

The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350317748

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9781350317741

Engaging the Dragon

By: Richard Harry Gatley

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Engaging the Dragon

By: Richard Harry Gatley

Men want to be "heroes." Because of this, they end up shooting themselves in the foot every time they try to be helpful to the fairer sex! What does a guy have to do to be successful once in a while with the woman he loves? The answer to that question lies between the covers of this book. But, Engaging The Dragon isn't just for men. When husbands and wives discover what they're actually up against when they try to talk to each other - their astonishing physiological differences in dealing with conflict, and the disastrous disparities in their confrontational styles - the effect is startling; they stop blaming one another and focus instead on how to cope with these obstacles. Engaging The Dragon tells men and women how to be more effective in their relationships, and it does so with a sense of humor.

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1938223950

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Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret

What Women Didn’t Tell the Grimms

By: Harry Rand

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Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret

What Women Didn’t Tell the Grimms

By: Harry Rand

Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin’s story—or thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of women’s shrewd accounts of their relationships with men. And the verdict is not flattering. The fairytale may count among the world’s oldest dirty jokes. The theme of the tale, an observation repeated and varied throughout, mocks male inadequacy in many forms, beginning with sexual failure. The punchline misplaced, over time its wickedly funny insights about adult life passed for childish nonsense. The story hides, in plain sight, criticism of workplace sexual harassment—centuries before society took notice of the indignity. Rumpelstiltskin tells a feminist tale with lessons for men and women, about what women said to each other when they thought their private conversation and complaints passed unnoticed. In the story’s different versions, the Brothers Grimm, who recorded the tale, missed women’s wry observations.

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Routledge

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1351204149

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9781351204149

Many Pious Women

Edition and Translation

By: Harry Fox,Justin Jaron Lewis

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Many Pious Women

Edition and Translation

By: Harry Fox,Justin Jaron Lewis

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for generosity and respect for their wives’ piety. Whether women living in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th–century manuscript in Western Yiddish (Judeo–German) written in Italy. The text will also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now available for the very first time in the original text with an English translation.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110262088

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Planet Cat

A Cat-Alog

By: Sandra Choron,Harry Choron,Arden Moore

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Planet Cat

A Cat-Alog

By: Sandra Choron,Harry Choron,Arden Moore

Presents more than four hundred lists on various information on cats, including cat breeds, training, and behavior, as well as such topics as famous cats in history, cat food recipes, and gifts for pampered cats.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618812598

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9780618812592

Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim

On Foot, Across Europe to Rome

By: Harry Bucknall

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Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim

On Foot, Across Europe to Rome

By: Harry Bucknall

Watching in disbelief as his computer was struck by lightning in 2007, Harry Bucknall had no idea that the subsequent trail of events would lead him to Rome – five years later, on foot. Following the Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrim path that dates back nearly two thousand years, Harry walks through England, France, Switzerland and Italy weaving a historical tapestry liberally coloured with tales of angels and saints, emperors and kings and war and revolution. He uncovers a little known route that leads him through vineyards and villages, towns and cities and over rivers and mountains to the heart of the Eternal City, Saint Peter's Basilica. Like A Tramp, Like A Pilgrim is a joyous journey of Elizabethan proportion filled with anecdote, adventure and mishap as Harry encounters the changing faces of a landscape suffused with history; yet his journey is perhaps most enriched by the extraordinary stories of those he meets - fellow pilgrims and locals alike - along the way.

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A&C Black

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1408187264

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9781408187265

Dictionary of Astrology

By: Harry E. Wedeck

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Dictionary of Astrology

By: Harry E. Wedeck

This A-to-Z reference book comprises astrological techniques and concepts as well as the historical figures who have contributed to the study of astrology. Covering astrological traditions from across the globe, this authoritative guidebook offers an in-depth overview of the complex and fascinating world of astrology. Spiritualist and occult scholar Harry E. Wedeck provides a wealth of information on astrological terminology, ideas, theories, and principles, as well as the history of astrology from antiquity to the present. Wedeck also includes biographical information on major figures in the field, from the Arabian astrologer Abben-Ragel to Zoroaster, the Persian founder of the cult of Zoroastrianism. For practicing astrologers, students of horoscopes, or anyone exploring the wisdom of the stars, Dictionary of Astrology is an essential reference work.

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Open Road Media

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1504067215

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The Murderous History of Bible Translations

Power, Conflict and the Quest for Meaning

By: Harry Freedman

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The Murderous History of Bible Translations

Power, Conflict and the Quest for Meaning

By: Harry Freedman

Harry Freedman recounts the fascinating and bloody history of the Bible. In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested and beheaded. These were not the first, nor were they the last instances of extreme violence against Bible translators. The Murderous History of Bible Translations tells the remarkable, and bloody, story of those who dared translate the word of God. The Bible has been translated far more than any other book. To our minds it is self-evident that believers can read their sacred literature in a language they understand. But the history of Bible translations is far more contentious than reason would suggest. Bible translations underlie an astonishing number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world. Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography describes brilliantly the passions and strong emotions that arise when deeply held religious convictions are threatened or undermined. He tells of the struggle for authority and orthodoxy in a world where temporal power was always subjugated to the divine. A world in which the idea of a Bible for all was so important that many were willing to give up their time, their security and often their lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472921690

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Second World and Green World

Studies in Renaissance Fiction-making

By: Harry Berger (Jr.)

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Second World and Green World

Studies in Renaissance Fiction-making

By: Harry Berger (Jr.)

Harry Berger is a brilliant, tenacious, indefatigable close reader of Renaissance texts. . . . In fact, his remarkably restless and capacious intelligence illuminates virtually the whole range of Renaissance cultural artifacts and then turns upon itself to illuminate its own theoretical assumptions and critical procedures. . . . The essays in this book are essential reading for students of Renaissance culture."--Stephen Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley "This collection of Harry Berger's essays is a major and long-awaited event for students of Renaissance literature and art. Readers in other fields will also be interested in following an exceptionally innovative mind as it moves across many disciplinary boundaries."--Margaret W. Ferguson, University of Colorado, Boulder

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0520071816

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9780520071810

Making Trifles of Terrors

Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

By: Harry Berger,Peter Erickson

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Making Trifles of Terrors

Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

By: Harry Berger,Peter Erickson

This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never before been published; the essays' appearance in a single volume makes available for the first time the full scope of Berger's unique approach to ethical discourses in Shakespeare's plays. The sequence of essays displays both the continuity and the revisionary development that mark his critical practice since the early work on The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, and the Elizabethan theater. When one compares Berger's earlier work from the 1960's with the writing from the 1980's and 1990's in the present collection, one sees that the difference stems primarily from the impact on the later work of his encounters with the whole range of structuralist and poststructuralist theory. Much of the excitement and vitality of Berger's current work comes from his efforts to incorporate new methodological influences into his previous system. Because he comes to poststructuralism as a mature critic whose larger interpretive framework is already in place, his response is not simply to immerse himself in the new theoretical modes and adopt them wholesale, but rather to make them his own. Among the plays discussed are The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Macbeth, 2 Henry IV, Richard II--and, in two of the new essays, 1 Henry IV and Measure for Measure. Also new is Berger's retrospective account of his critical development in the extensive opening "Acknowledgments.

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Stanford University Press

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0804728526

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Book's by Harry Chaucer

The Wallace

The Wallace

A Short History of English Literature

A Short History of English Literature

Contexts of Criticism

Contexts of Criticism

Index of Mediaeval Studies Published in Festschriften, 1865 - 1946

Index of Mediaeval Studies Published in Festschriften, 1865 - 1946

The Six from Nowhere

The Six from Nowhere

A Gallery of Mirrors

A Gallery of Mirrors

A History of Literary Criticism

A History of Literary Criticism

Engaging the Dragon

Engaging the Dragon

Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret

Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret

Many Pious Women

Many Pious Women

Planet Cat

Planet Cat

Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim

Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim

Dictionary of Astrology

Dictionary of Astrology

The Murderous History of Bible Translations

The Murderous History of Bible Translations

Second World and Green World

Second World and Green World

Making Trifles of Terrors

Making Trifles of Terrors

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