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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Legs : a memoir of childhood and adolescence -- 2. Manuel Puig: the writer as diva -- 3. The last days of Reinaldo Arenas : a sadness as deep as the sea -- 4. …”
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A History of Icelandic Literature / by Stefán Einarsson, 1897-1972

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers.…”
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The House of Death : Messages from the English Renaissance by STEIN, ARNOLD

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