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Reading riddles rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / by Tucker, Brian, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…I -- Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism -- From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle -- The closed circle of criticism -- Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol -- Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose -- Pt. II -- Reading the psyche: the human riddle -- The inaugural gesture of psychoanalysis -- The joke and its other: toward a Freudian concept of riddle -- The riddle as Freud's textual model -- Trauma and the other Oedipus complex.…”
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Memory's library medieval books in early modern England / by Summit, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Edmunds, and The fall of princes -- The lost libraries of English humanism : More, Starkey, Elyot -- Reading Reformation : the libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser -- A library of evidence : Robert Cotton's medieval manuscripts and the generation of seventeenth-century prose -- "Cogitation against libraries" : Bacon, the Bodleian, and the weight of the medieval past -- Coda : memories of libraries.…”
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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians -- On rhyme -- The music of forms.…”
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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / by Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians -- On rhyme -- The music of forms.…”
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Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems -- 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque -- 6. …”
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Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems -- 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque -- 6. …”
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The lawyer's guide to writing well by Goldstein, Tom

Table of Contents: “…-- Don't make it like it was -- Ten steps to writing -- Of dawdlers and scrawlers, pacers, and plungers : getting started and overcoming blocks -- The mechanics of getting it down : from quill pens to computers -- Lessons from a writing audit -- Lawyers as publishers : words are their product -- Writing the lead -- Form, structure, and organization -- Wrong words, long sentences, and other mister meaners -- Revising your prose -- Making your writing memorable.…”
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Dante's Vita nuova by Dante Alighieri

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The Defence of Guenevere and other poems by Morris, William, 1834-1896

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Things come on an amneoir / by Harrington, Joseph, 1962-

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Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

Table of Contents: “…The khutba: the 'central jewel' of medieval Arab-Islamic prose; 3. The khutba: rhetorical and discursive strategies of persuasion; 4. …”
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Byron and the Forms of Thought / by Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English)

Table of Contents: “…The need for 'all this' : Johnson, Bowles and the forms of prose -- Essay IV. 'I wish to do as much by Poesy' : amidst a Byronic poetics -- Part 3. …”
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Byron and the Forms of Thought / by Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English)

Table of Contents: “…The need for 'all this' : Johnson, Bowles and the forms of prose -- Essay IV. 'I wish to do as much by Poesy' : amidst a Byronic poetics -- Part 3. …”
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Noche buena Hispanic American Christmas stories /

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Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

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The Fictions of Satire by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and representation -- Introduction ; Central symbol of violence ; Relationship : the fool and the knave ; Fiction as device : Lucian ; Satura into prose fiction ; Picaresque narrative : the servant-master relation -- From Panurge to Achitophel -- Satirist and the satirist-satirized ; Satirist as knave and as hero : Panurge and Pantagruel ; Satyr-satirist and Augustan realism ; Quixote fiction ; Turnus and Satan ; Fictions of Tory satire -- Swift : the middleman and the dean -- From rhetoric to fiction : The drapier's letters ; Swift's version of the Tory fiction ; Swiftean realism : The Bickerstaff papers ; Swiftean picaresque : Gulliver's travels ; Swiftean romanticism : the satirist as hero ; Conclusion : the fiction of Whig satire.…”
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The Fictions of Satire by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and representation -- Introduction ; Central symbol of violence ; Relationship : the fool and the knave ; Fiction as device : Lucian ; Satura into prose fiction ; Picaresque narrative : the servant-master relation -- From Panurge to Achitophel -- Satirist and the satirist-satirized ; Satirist as knave and as hero : Panurge and Pantagruel ; Satyr-satirist and Augustan realism ; Quixote fiction ; Turnus and Satan ; Fictions of Tory satire -- Swift : the middleman and the dean -- From rhetoric to fiction : The drapier's letters ; Swift's version of the Tory fiction ; Swiftean realism : The Bickerstaff papers ; Swiftean picaresque : Gulliver's travels ; Swiftean romanticism : the satirist as hero ; Conclusion : the fiction of Whig satire.…”
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Harper's textbook of pediatric dermatology

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In translation : honouring Sheila Fischman /

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