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An introduction to six common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guidelines for their use and numerous …

This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia's cultural life to mediate Australians' ambivalence about the colonial …

Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This …

Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts …

How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza's Relacion of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did …

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as Shakespeare wrote? Is the Earl …

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may …

This book examines the effects on literary works of a little-noted economic development in the early twentieth century: individuals and governments alike began to regard going into …

Shakespeare's late plays are a 'mixed bag' with a common theme: from the fiendishly jealous Leontes to the saintly Pericles; from the ineffectual Cymbeline to the omnipotent …

Geoffrey Bullough’s The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare’s plays with a series of texts on …

Voltaire's Candide: Or The Optimist, And Rasselas Prince Of Abyssinia (1884) is a classic work of literature that tells the story of a young man named Candide who is raised in an …