Product Description: This book examines how the modernist poetics exemplified in Ezra Pound's epic poem "The Cantos" are unavoidably bound-in with the ideological forces underpinning his advocacy of fascism. Overall it argues that Pound's reactionary urge to redefine a lost culture, coupled with his sense of textual annihilation of a validating poetic centre, is the cultural ground on which his ideal of fascist republic rests...read more

Product Description: Venture into the mystical and ever-changing St Petersburg and discover its vibrant city life, architectural splendour, beguiling history and world-class arts scene. This indispensable guide will show you the way. 22-page room-by-room guide to the Hermitage excursions to the grand palaces of the tsars tips to find the city's hot spots or the Kirov Ballet in full flight detailed language section with Cyrillic script 16 pages of colour maps, including metro map...read more

Product Description: Selby (American studies, U. of Wales, Swansea) considers the critical history of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . Selby contends that the poem is a crucial document that marks and produces a change in sensibility from unity of thought to a modern even postmodern apprehension of the plurality of expe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Waste Land (1922) is widely recognized as a central text of modernism and is often described as the most important poem of the twentieth century. This guide begins with early reviews and discussions from the 1920s and '30s, considered alongside Eliot's own critical essays, showing how he set the critical terms by which his poem has been read...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this Readers' Guide, Nick Selby brings together some of the most important critical writings about The Waste Land and provides a clear discussion of their place within the development of critical theory from modernism to postmodernism...read more

Details the beaches, Everglades, outdoor activities, theme parks, campgrounds, hotels, restaurants, and nightlife of Florida.

Offers advice on restaurants, accommodations, shopping, attractions, entertainment, and nightlife in Miami

Product Description: This Columbia Critical Guide starts with extracts from Melville's own letters and essays and from early reviews of Moby-Dick that set the terms for later critical evaluations. Subsequent chapters deal with the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s and the novel's central place in the establishment, growth, and reassessment of American Studies in the 1940s and 1950s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Describes the country's history and culture, suggests attractions to visit, and offers tips on transportation, lodging, dining out, and shopping

Product Description: This is the essential insiders' guide to Miami. Authors Nick and Corinna Selby capture the rhythm of the city with lively descriptions and endless recommendations for where to go, where to stay, what to eat, and how to get around for a range of interests and and budgets...read more