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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney is the most comprehensive collection of essays on Sidney published to date. Written by an expert team of international specialists, its fifty chapters cover every aspect of Sidney's life, works, and the times in which he lived. It provides fresh interpretations of Sidney's career, texts, and legacy, drawing on the most recent historical and archival research ... Read more

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  • On Not Defending Poetry

    Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy

    Sidney's Defence of Poesy--the foundational text of English poetics--is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's text, she identifies within it a model of poetry that is markedly at variance from the one ... Read more

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  • Studying Arts and Humanities

    Series series Bloomsbury Study Skills
    Clearly illustrated with examples of written work and useful interactive exercises, this guide will encourage independent learning, helping arts and humanities students to develop effective study habits and learn successful strategies for reading and writing about theoretical texts. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

    Edited by Catherine Bates ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis

    Method in the Madness

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume presents a collection of new essays on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis from leading figures in the field, making a strong statement about the ongoing relevance of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and method to the study of literary texts in general, and to Shakespeare’s poems and plays in particular. Drawing from a vibrant and diverse dialogue with psychoanalysis, this ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of Poetry in English

    Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

    Series series Oxford History of Poetry in English
    The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Civil Justice

    Toward a Value-Based Framework for Reform

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book reviews the knowledge corpus about access to civil justice across disciplines and legal traditions and proposes a new research framework for civil justice reform. This framework is intended to foster further critical analysis of the justice system in a systematic and organized way. In particular, the framework underlines the tensions between different values considered as central to the ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Renaissance Poetry

    Edited by Catherine Bates ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the marketCovering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood ... Read more

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  • Organisational innovation in health services

    Lessons from the NHS Treatment Centres

    Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with completely unforeseen results reveals clear, practical lessons based on case study research involving over 200 interviews. Policy makers, managers and ... Read more

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    Dead Man's Hand

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    DEAD BODIES, SUFFERING SOULS Freddie didn’t mean to kill the mugger she barely had time to think. But when it was over, her boyfriend was in the hospital and the teenaged assailant was dead. Now, trying to cope with aggressive reporters, inquisitive cops, concerned relatives, and her own nagging conscience, Freddie finds one source of solace: the strength and comfort offered by Mike Danken, an ex ... Read more

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

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