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British and Irish Literatures

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The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

Textual Awareness

A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann

By Dirk Van Hulle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Modern Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Compares the writing processes behind three central works of the modernist canon, revealing fascinating connections between literary and textual criticism

A Beckett Canon

By Ruby Cohn
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, European Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An indispensable guide to the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, spanning sixty years

The Cat and the Human Imagination

Feline Images from Bast to Garfield

By Katharine M. Rogers
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, American Literature, European Literature, Cultural Studies

An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art

Revels in Madness

Insanity in Medicine and Literature

By Allen Thiher
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present

The Origins of Free Verse

By H. T. Kirby-Smith
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, British and Irish Literatures, European Literature

Argues that free verse has deep historical roots, and traces them, from Milton to contemporary poetry

Directing Beckett

By Lois Oppenheim
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, European Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Interviews with and essays by twenty-two prominent directors of Samuel Beckett's work

Parnassus

Twenty Years of Poetry in Review

Edited by Herbert Leibowitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, European Literature
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