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9780874513127 | Univ Pr of New England, April 1, 1985, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.
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9781584652335, titled "The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable and Turner" | Dartmouth College, June 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.
Product Description: This collection of essays on works ranging from medieval illuminated manuscripts to the literature and Pop Art of our own time has a dual purpose. It aims not simply to make specific comparisons across the borderline between literature and the visual arts, but also to scrutinize the borderline itself, and specifically to question two basic assumptions...read more
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9780820404677 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 1, 1987, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays on works ranging from medieval illuminated manuscripts to the literature and Pop Art of our own time has a dual purpose.
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9780874515657 | Dartmouth College, June 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art, literature, and historical narratives from England, France, Germany, and the Caribbean.
9780874515862 | Dartmouth College, April 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Why is the anniversary of the French Revolution celebrated on July 14, the day the Bastille was stormed, rather than on August 26, the day the Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed?
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9780226323138 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $35.00
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9780226323145 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $31.00
Hardcover:
9780393965568 | Pck edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1994), cover price $45.50
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9780393974263 | 5 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2000), cover price $76.75
9780393964707 | 4th edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1994), cover price $41.20
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9780393970920 | Spiral-bound edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1996), cover price $58.75
Product Description: Succinct, user-friendly, and positive in its approach, Writing: A Concise Handbook is the perfect companion for any writer, in college and beyond. Chapters including "Ten Ways to Invigorate Your Style" and "Correcting Common Errors" provide essential tools for making one's writing engaging, persuasive, and clear...read more
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9780393970937 | Workbook edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1997), cover price $20.60 | About this edition: Succinct, user-friendly, and positive in its approach, Writing: A Concise Handbook is the perfect companion for any writer, in college and beyond.
Product Description: Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using examples such as the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of Frankenstein, the provocative photographs of Sally Mann, and the abstract canvases of Gerhard Richter, the volume illustrates how learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process of learning to read...read more
Hardcover:
9781932792416 | Baylor Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy.
Hardcover:
9780300195583 | Yale Univ Pr, May 27, 2014, cover price $65.00
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