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Hamlet's Absent Father

Product Description: Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious, for a strong father. Much more than he wants to have killed his father, Hamlet wants his father back and seeks a strong man with whom to identify...read more

By Avi Erlich

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9780691637570 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $112.50 | About this edition: Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious, for a strong father.

9780691063409 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1977, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious, for a strong father.

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9780691609256 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious, for a strong father.

9780023117008, titled "The Jazz Age" | Scribner, June 1, 1969, cover price $23.00 | also contains The Jazz Age

Shakespeare and Abraham

Product Description: In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeareâs dramatic fascination with the story of Abrahamâs near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeareâs early plays: Genesis 22 informed Cliffordâs attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubertâs providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moorâs surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronicus, among others...read more

By Ken Jackson

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9780268032715 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeareâs dramatic fascination with the story of Abrahamâs near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22.

Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907

By Melissa Shields Jenkins

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9781472411617 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2014, cover price $149.95

Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy

Product Description: Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy traces the representations of outlaw fathers, or queer patriarchs, and their relationships with their queer sons, in a particular literary tradition: mid-to-late-Victorian and twentieth-century British fiction and memoir...read more

By Helena Gurfinkel

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9781611476378 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, March 27, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy traces the representations of outlaw fathers, or queer patriarchs, and their relationships with their queer sons, in a particular literary tradition: mid-to-late-Victorian and twentieth-century British fiction and memoir.

Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East

Product Description: Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families...read more

By Dalya Cohen-Mor

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9781137335197 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 7, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families.

Loser Sons: Politics and Authority

By Avital Ronell

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9780252036644 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 27, 2012, cover price $95.00

Paperback:

9780252079696 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 10, 2013, cover price $25.00

Styles of Extinction: Cormac Mccarthy's the Road

Product Description: Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary scholars, one major philosopher, as well as a handful of emerging critical voices, all of whom deploy their own specialist methods in order to think through this bestselling, Zeitgeist-defining event of contemporary literature...read more

By Mark Steven (editor)

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9781441169341 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 28, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary scholars, one major philosopher, as well as a handful of emerging critical voices, all of whom deploy their own specialist methods in order to think through this bestselling, Zeitgeist-defining event of contemporary literature.

Paperback:

9781441185051 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 28, 2012, cover price $34.95

Primogeniture and Entail in England: A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature

Product Description: This book examines the history and literary representation of one of the most idiosyncratic aspects of English socio-economic history, namely primogeniture as a rule governing the succession to landed estates. This double approach roughly covers the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries...read more

By Zouheir Jamoussi

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9781443828642 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, May 1, 2011, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This book examines the history and literary representation of one of the most idiosyncratic aspects of English socio-economic history, namely primogeniture as a rule governing the succession to landed estates.

Henry James and the Father Question

Product Description: The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion...read more

By Andrew Taylor

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9780521807227 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 25, 2002, cover price $114.99 | About this edition: The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist.

Paperback:

9780521120715 | 1 reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist.

Sohrab and Rustem: The Epic Theme of a Combat Between Father and Son; A Study of Its Genesis and Use in Literature and Popular Tradition

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By Murray Anthony Potter

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9781437218756, titled "Sohrab and Rustem: The Epic Theme of a Combat Between Father and Son, a Study of Its Genesis and Use in Literature and Popular Tradition" | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

9780404535575 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1972, cover price $11.50 | About this edition: Excerpt from Sohrab and Rustem: The Epic Theme of a Combat Between, Father and Son; A Study of Its Genesis and Use in Literature, and Popular TraditionThe following pages appeared in their original form as a doctorate thesis offered to and accepted by the authorities of Harvard University in 1899.

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9781437089769, titled "Sohrab and Rustem: The Epic Theme of a Combat Between Father and Son, a Study of Its Genesis and Use in Literature and Popular Tradition" | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The Road

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, scavenged food and each other.

By Cormac McCarthy

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9780330447539 | Pan Macmillan, November 3, 2006, cover price $30.05 | About this edition: A father and his son walk alone through burned America.

9780307265432 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 26, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

Paperback:

9780307476302 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 3, 2009), cover price $14.95

9780307472120 | Mti edition (Vintage Books, November 18, 2008), cover price $7.99

9780307455291 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 14, 2008), cover price $14.95

9780307277923 | Vintage Books, September 11, 2007, cover price $14.00

9780307386458 | Random House, May 29, 2007, cover price $7.99

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Miscellaneous:

9780307267450 | Vintage Books, March 20, 2007, cover price $14.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9789626349717 | Abridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, November 4, 2008), cover price $19.98

Library:

9781617530029 | Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 2011, cover price $30.00

9781585478934 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, January 1, 2007), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington PostThe searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

Prebinding:

9781417807437 | Turtleback Books, March 28, 2007, cover price $28.10

The Chosen

An overview of the work features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.

By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791081730 | Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An overview of the work features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.

A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O'Connor

Product Description: When The Last Hurrah was published in 1956, the obscure Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968) gained sudden wealth and fame with his elegiac novel about a veteran political campaigner. Six years later O'Connor's intimate portrait of a recovered alcoholic priest in The Edge of Sadness won a Pulitzer Prize...read more

By Charles F. Duffy

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9780813213378 | Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: When The Last Hurrah was published in 1956, the obscure Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968) gained sudden wealth and fame with his elegiac novel about a veteran political campaigner.

Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Product Description: A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, an Emmy-winning television writer, and an Oscar-winning screenwriter of such notable films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, the amazingly versatile Horton Foote has been a force on the American cultural scene for more than fifty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Laurin Porter

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9780807128459 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, an Emmy-winning television writer, and an Oscar-winning screenwriter of such notable films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, the amazingly versatile Horton Foote has been a force on the American cultural scene for more than fifty years.

Paperback:

9780807128794 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright, an Emmy-winning television writer, and an Oscar-winning screenwriter of such notable films as To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies, and A Trip to Bountiful, the amazingly versatile Horton Foote has been a force on the American cultural scene for more than fifty years.

Autobiography in Shakespeare's Plays: Lands So by His Father Lost

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By W. Nicholas Knight and Robert F. Willson, Jr. (editor)

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9780820437774 | Reprint edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 2002), cover price $33.95

Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness

Product Description: In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Dombey and Son with perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Lee Miller

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9780801440571 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents.

Hanif Kurieshi's the Buddha of Suburbia: A Reader's Guide

Product Description: This is an excellent guide to Hanif Kureishi's ground-breaking novel. It features a biography of the author (including an in-depth interview with Kureishi), a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative and helpful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nahem Yousaf

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9780826453242 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This is an excellent guide to Hanif Kureishi's ground-breaking novel.

Readings on All My Sons

Examines the style, structure, characters, and themes found in Arthur Miller's 'All my sons.' (view table of contents)

By Christopher J. Smith (editor)

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9780737706888 | Greenhaven Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the style, structure, characters, and themes found in Arthur Miller's 'All my sons.

Library:

9780737706895 | Greenhaven Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $36.20 | About this edition: Examines the style, structure, characters, and themes found in Arthur Miller's 'All my sons.

Cliffsnotes on Potok's the Chosen

Product Description: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.CliffsNotes on The Chosen reveals the condition of American Jews living in two cultures, one secular and one religious...read more

By Stephen J. Greenstein

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9780764585098 | Cliff Notes, September 15, 1999, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.

Miscellaneous:

9780764513152 | Cliff Notes, March 21, 2001, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.

Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature

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By Gaylord Brewer (contributor), Eva Paulino Bueno (editor), Terry Caesar (editor) and William Hummel (editor)

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9780739100929 | Lexington Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $39.99

Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Product Description: Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Eva Paulino Bueno (editor), Terry Caesar (editor) and William Hummel (editor)

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9780739100912 | Lexington Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $103.00 | About this edition: Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations.

A Body Across the Map: The Father-Son Plays of Sam Shepard

Product Description: As an actor, screenwriter, director, short story writer, and, most significantly, a playwright, Sam Shepard has long been an important figure on the American cultural landscape. A Body Across the Map focuses on the character conflict central to Shepardâs most significant plays; that between fathers and sons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Taav

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9780820444338 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: As an actor, screenwriter, director, short story writer, and, most significantly, a playwright, Sam Shepard has long been an important figure on the American cultural landscape.

Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy

Product Description: Building on the intellectual and historical context of Darwinâs theory of evolution and its concomitant questioning of a divine father, this book analyzes dramatic and narrative representations of crises in the nineteenth-century patriarchal family and the gradual rise of the independent or New Woman in works by Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ross Shideler

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9780804735605 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Building on the intellectual and historical context of Darwinâs theory of evolution and its concomitant questioning of a divine father, this book analyzes dramatic and narrative representations of crises in the nineteenth-century patriarchal family and the gradual rise of the independent or New Woman in works by Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy.

Kafka and Pinter Shadow-Boxing: The Struggle Between Father and Son

Product Description: This is the first major study of the extraordinary affinity between these two heavyweights of 20th-century literature. As well as offering a bold new interpretation of the struggle between father and son in Kafka's classic stories The Judgement and The Metamorphosis, Armstrong seeks to assess and document the extent to which Pinter had been influenced by this Kafkaian archetype...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Raymond Armstrong

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9780312215415 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1999, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This is the first major study of the extraordinary affinity between these two heavyweights of 20th-century literature.

The Absent Father in Modern Drama

Product Description: From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory. This work presents the first full-length examination of the absent father in modern drama. It closely analyzes major works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Rabe, Henley, Norman, Pielmeier, Shaffer, Osborne, Churchill, and Fugard...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Rosefeldt

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9780820426297 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 1995, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory.

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9780820437095 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 1996, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory.

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