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Product Description: American Tantalus argues that modern Us fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire...read more

Hardcover:

9781623561079 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation.

Paperback:

9781501319624 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 21, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: American Tantalus argues that modern Us fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation.

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Product Description: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire. Beyond the many pilgrims’ stories taking desire as their topic, Elizabeth Scala argues that desire operates in structurally significant ways found in the signifying chains that link the tales to each other...read more

Hardcover:

9780814212783 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 20, 2015, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire.
9780814293836 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, April 20, 2015), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire.

Paperback:

9780814251997 | Reprint edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, March 18, 2016), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394299464, titled "Anna Karenina" | Random House, October 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | also contains Anna Karenina | About this edition: A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time.

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Hardcover:

9781438455792 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $95.00

Paperback:

9781438455808 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2016, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred around the fulfilment of ‘needs’ to one ministering to anything that might, potentially, be desired...read more
By Jane Ford (editor), Kim Edwards Keates (editor) and Patricia Pulham (editor)

Hardcover:

9781138826342 | Routledge, November 3, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle.

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Product Description: Michael S. D. Hooper reverses the recent trend of regarding Tennessee Williams as fundamentally a social writer following the discovery, publication and/or performance of plays from both ends of his career - the 'proletarian' apprentice years of Candles to the Sun and Not About Nightingales and the once overlooked final period of, amongst many other plays, The Red Devil Battery Sign...read more

Hardcover:

9781107015364 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Michael S.

Paperback:

9781107533004 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 6, 2015), cover price $37.99 | About this edition: Michael S.

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Hardcover:

9781441118653 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 14, 2013, cover price $110.00

Paperback:

9781628925234, titled "The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera With Rene Girard" | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014), cover price $39.95

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Product Description: In The End of Satisfaction, Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term “satisfaction” during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Focusing on the term’s significance as an organizing principle of Christian repentance, she examines the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatized the consequences of its re- or de-valuation in the process of Reformation doctrinal change...read more

Hardcover:

9780801452741 | Cornell Univ Pr, May 20, 2014, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In The End of Satisfaction, Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term “satisfaction” during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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Product Description: Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality...read more

Hardcover:

9781137340078 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 5, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters.

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Product Description: Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender...read more

Hardcover:

9781137332059 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 31, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare.

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Product Description: Taking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, "Surface Tension" reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic moment-charged, variegated, intensely focused-as capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture...read more

Paperback:

9781564788092 | 1 edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, April 23, 2013), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Taking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, "Surface Tension" reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic moment-charged, variegated, intensely focused-as capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture.

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Product Description: Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject...read more

Hardcover:

9780230224636 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 29, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work.

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Product Description: Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time―whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife...read more

Hardcover:

9780674066328 | Sew edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 30, 2012), cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time.

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Hardcover:

9781403973221 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 19, 2012, cover price $100.00
9780127846620, titled "The Ruff: Individuality in a Gregarious Wading Bird" | Academic Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $34.95 | also contains The Ruff: Individuality in a Gregarious Wading Bird

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Product Description: This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation...read more

Hardcover:

9781907747960 | Legenda, June 14, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation.

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Product Description: Scientific and literary representations of a knowledge of desire, sex and bodies are characterized by a coincidence of speech and silence. This monograph studies the forms and effects of this coincidence which is captured in the term ´;(dis)articulation´...read more

Hardcover:

9783110254938 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, April 15, 2011, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: Scientific and literary representations of a knowledge of desire, sex and bodies are characterized by a coincidence of speech and silence.

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Product Description: Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage...read more

Hardcover:

9780231152105 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 15, 2010, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire.

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“Anna Karenina”, with its majestic imagery demonstrates Tolstoy's aversion to his aristocratic peers and human impotence. This masterpiece is widely regarded as an apex of realistic fiction and the author considered this book his first true novel. Gripping and stimulating!

Hardcover:

9781593081775 | Barnes & Noble, August 26, 2004, cover price $9.95
9780809596812 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life.
9781588276001 | Indypublish.Com, December 1, 2001, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877) a pinnacle of realist fiction.
9781588276025 | Indypublish.Com, December 1, 2001, cover price $27.99
9781588276049 | Indypublish.Com, December 1, 2001, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877) a pinnacle of realist fiction.
9 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Paperback:

9781439169469 | Pocket Classics, October 19, 2010, cover price $7.99 | also contains Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina
9788420650760 | Poc tra edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2009), cover price $20.95 | also contains Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina
9781437890907 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $16.99 | also contains Anna Karenina | About this edition: Anna Karenina, Volume III
9781425052874 | Large print edition (Read How You Want.Com, November 30, 2006), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A magnificent story, that amalgamates the classical sensuality and rebelliousness against the prevailing customs, is presented here.
9781425035983 | Read How You Want.Com, July 30, 2006, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: "Anna Karenina", with its majestic imagery demonstrates Tolstoy's aversion to his aristocratic peers and human impotence.
38 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Miscellaneous:

9781605141930 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, April 1, 2008), cover price $79.99 | also contains Anna Karenina

CD/Spoken Word:

9781598870800 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, December 14, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When beautiful, aristocratic, and married Anna falls madly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks Russian society, tears her family apart, and leads, inevitably, to tragedy.
9780786184415 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 2004), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina tells the story of two characters whose emotional instincts conflict with the dominant social mores of their time.
9780786189571 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1998), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.
9789626340813 | Abridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $28.98

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556857904 | Unabridged edition (Audio Book Contractors, January 30, 2004), cover price $32.95
9781556857911 | Unabridged edition (Audio Book Contractors, January 30, 2004), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: The adulterous love affair of Anna and her handsome office, Vronsky, ends in tragedy.
9781556857546 | Unabridged edition (Audio Book Contractors, January 30, 2004), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
9781840327731 | Abridged edition (Hodder/Headline Audiobooks, October 1, 2003), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
9781840324815 | Unabridged edition (Hodder/Headline Audiobooks, December 1, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Regarded by many as the world's greatest novel, this is the classic story of Anna Karenina, 'grande dame of Petersburg society', who forsakes everything her marriage, her son and position in society for the dashing Count Vronksy with tragic consequences.
14 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Reinforced:

9780606030342 | Demco Media, December 1, 1977, cover price $18.95 | also contains Anna Karenina | About this edition: A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier

Prebinding:

9781417769674 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $20.80 | also contains Anna Karenina | About this edition: A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier.
9780808509523 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier

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Product Description: This edition of three Ovidian tales translated and partly rewritten in the 1560s (Thomas Peend's 'The Pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis', Thomas Underdowne's 'The Excellent Historye of Theseus and Ariadne' and William Hubbard's 'The Tragicall' and lamentable Histoire of two faithfull mates: Ceyx Kynge of Thracine and Alcione his wife) calls attention to the possible literary influence of such minor texts on later poets and playwrights like Marlowe and Shakespeare...read more
By Sophie Chiari (editor)

Hardcover:

9781443814201 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, December 1, 2009, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This edition of three Ovidian tales translated and partly rewritten in the 1560s (Thomas Peend's 'The Pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis', Thomas Underdowne's 'The Excellent Historye of Theseus and Ariadne' and William Hubbard's 'The Tragicall' and lamentable Histoire of two faithfull mates: Ceyx Kynge of Thracine and Alcione his wife) calls attention to the possible literary influence of such minor texts on later poets and playwrights like Marlowe and Shakespeare.

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Product Description: Book three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando)...read more

Hardcover:

9780802096845 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 15, 2009, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Book three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando).

Hardcover:

9780521862196 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2006, cover price $99.99

Paperback:

9780521117807 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2009), cover price $44.99

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Product Description: Rhetorics of Reason and Desire traces the appearance of rhetoric in key literary works from classical times to the Middle Ages, focusing on the reception and transformation of Ciceronian rhetoric in Vergil's Aeneid, Augustine's Confessions and On Christian Doctrine, and the lyrics of the early troubadours...read more

Hardcover:

9780801421297 | Cornell Univ Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: Rhetorics of Reason and Desire traces the appearance of rhetoric in key literary works from classical times to the Middle Ages, focusing on the reception and transformation of Ciceronian rhetoric in Vergil's Aeneid, Augustine's Confessions and On Christian Doctrine, and the lyrics of the early troubadours.

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