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- Civil disobedience / by Bloom, Harold.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC- Subjects: Civil disobedience in literature.;
- © c2010., Infobase,
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- The sublime / by Bloom, Harold.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC- Subjects: Sublime, The, in literature.;
- © c2010., Infobase,
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- Dark humor / by Bloom, Harold.; Hobby, Blake.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC- Subjects: Black humor.; Humor in literature.;
- © c2010., Infobase Pub.,
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- Red thread : on mazes and labyrinths / by Higgins, Charlotte,1972-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth--the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster--is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted Under Another Sky, tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of Northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Velázquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost, what it is to find one's way, and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. Red Thread is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the author's imagination--one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.- Subjects: Labyrinths in literature.; Labyrinths;
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- The trickster / by Bloom, Harold.; Hobby, Blake.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: Tricksters in literature.; Fools and jesters in literature.;
- © c2010., Infobase Pub.,
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- Heroes : the champions of our literary imagination / by Meyer, Bruce,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Heroes in literature; Literature;
- © c2007., HarperCollins,
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- Alienation / by Bloom, Harold.; Hobby, Blake.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC- Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.;
- © c2009., Infobase Pub.,
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- Payback : debt and the shadow side of wealth / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219), Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: Debt; Debt in literature.;
- © 2008., Anansi,
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- Inseparable : desire between women in literature / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260), Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: English literature; French literature; Lesbianism in literature.; Desire in literature.; Women in literature.;
- © c2010., Cleis Press,
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- Once upon a prime : the wondrous connections between mathematics and literature / by Hart, Sarah B.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair. We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites, as different as they come. But what if, instead, they were inextricably, even fundamentally, linked? In her clear, insightful, laugh-out-loud funny debut, Once Upon a Prime, Professor Sarah Hart shows us the myriad connections between math and literature, and how understanding those connections can enhance our enjoyment of both. Did you know, for instance, that Moby-Dick is full of sophisticated geometry? That James Joyce's stream-of-consciousness novels are deliberately checkered with mathematical references? That George Eliot was obsessed with statistics? That Jurassic Park is undergirded by fractal patterns? That Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote mathematician characters? From sonnets to fairytales to experimental French literature, Professor Hart shows how math and literature are complementary parts of the same quest, to understand human life and our place in the universe. As the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair, Professor Hart is the ideal tour guide, taking us on an unforgettable journey through the books we thought we knew, revealing new layers of beauty and wonder. As she promises, you're going to need a bigger bookcase"--- Subjects: Mathematics and literature.; Mathematics in literature.;
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