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Introducing Metaphor

By Murray Knowles, Rosamund Moon

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27801-0 (Routledge)

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Beautiful Angiola

The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach

"The Sicilian tales in Beautiful Angiola are a revelation; not in their originality, because like all great collected folk and fairy tales they are universal.…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97722-7 (Routledge)

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Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786

Performing America

By Susan Castillo

Susan Castillo’s pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or ‘multi-voiced’ texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31607-1 (Routledge)

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Lyrical Ballads

By William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35529-2 (Routledge)

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British Fiction of the 1990s

Edited by Nick Bentley

The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34257-5 (Routledge)

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Cervantes

Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote

Edited by Jeremy Robbins, Edwin Wiliamson

This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36143-9 (Routledge)

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Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene

A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828

By Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period.…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31676-7 (Routledge)

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Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture

A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

By Fuminobu Murakami

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki,…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35807-1 (Routledge)

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Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time

Robin Hood Classic Fiction Library volume 1

By AnonEdited by Stephen Knight

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-22003-3 (Routledge)

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Maid Marian

Robin Hood: Classic Fiction Library volume 2

By Thomas Love PeacockEdited by Stephen Knight

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-22004-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
By George Cusack
To be published January 1st 2009

Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892
By Colleen G. Boggs
To be published February 12th 2009

Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
By James Graham
To be published February 27th 2009

African City Textualities
Edited by Ranka Primorac
To be published March 1st 2009

Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
By Jaime Osterman Alves
To be published March 4th 2009

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