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Originally published in 1939, Miss Susie Slagle's spent half a year on the national best-seller lists, went through twenty-three hardcover printings, and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Now Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of Baltimore in the halcyon years before the Great War -- and of the Johns Hopkins medical ......
In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. ''The English Elegy'' is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry of mourning. (Poetry)
Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function
Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and language are seen as interrelated that the structure of Shakespeare's dramatic art emerges as ......
The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.
An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in Southern Europe and Latin America. The authors provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of ......
In this major new collection, John Hollander displays the elegance, versatility, and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. 'In Time and Place' features a generous offering of new verse, an extended prose piece, and a series of prose poems previously available only in a rare, privately published edition.The tightly rhymed ......
An array of internationally noted scholars examines the process of democratization in southern Europe and Latin America. They provide new interpretations of both current and historical efforts of nations to end periods of authoritarian rule and to initiate transition to democracy, efforts that have met with widely varying degrees of success and ......
''Rich in nuanced, contextually sensitive analysis, and each of the case studies is written by a leading authority.''Abraham F. Lowenthal, from the foreword 1986 Southern Europe - 232 pp. 0-8018-3190-3 $11.60 (reg. $14.50) pb Latin America - 256 pp. 0-8018-3188-1 $10.80 (reg. $13.50) pb Comparative Perspectives - 208 pp. 0-8018-3192-X $10.80 ......
