Criticism
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The Merchant of Venice
Images of American radicalism
Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel
Palestinian parties and politics that shaped the Old Testament
Literary theory
Critical reading and writing
Feminist Milton
Artefactos
Meditations on a hobby horse, and other essays on the theory of art
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory
Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
The Passion According to Luke
Structuralist poetics
The Jane Austen book club
The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
Coleridge
Poetics
A textual commentary on the Greek New Testament
Julia Kristeva
The armed vision
Roland Barthes
Dictionary of world literary terms, forms, technique, criticism
The Shakespeare symphony
Canons by consensus
The Bible and Homosexual Practice
Samuel Beckett; poet & critic
Future/present
When Words Lose Their Meaning
Word without end
Young artists in Italy at the turn of the millennium
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