Languages & Literatures
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Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies)
Sicilian
The vital art of D.H. Lawrence
The Oxford companion to German literature
The city in literature
Pike
Story of my life
The true story of the novel
Toward a phenomenological rhetoric
Arab women novelists
Master plots
The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass
Marcella
Literary luxuries
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Understanding Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The ticking tenure clock
Of Cops & Robbers
A survey of modern English
Memoir American
Kinship and polity in the Poema de mío Cid
Cultural semantics
Out of the dust
Canadian writers, 1920-1959
Place matters
As Thick As Thieves
Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance
The system
Disturbing the universe
Restless city ; and, Christmas gold, with other stories
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