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A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their mode…

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Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows…

A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke's body of work in its entirety, catering to stu…

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A Companion to Werner Herzog showcases over two dozen original scholarly essays examining nearly five decades of filmmaking by one of the most acclaim…

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This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical reading…

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