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The Merchant of Venice
Contemporary children's literature and film
F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis
Hunting Captain Ahab
The Hebrew feasts in their relation to recent critical hypotheses concerning the Pentateuch
Discourse and literature
A project that almost made it
History and poetics of intertextuality
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin
L'écriture et la différence
The significance of theory
Jesus and the future
The function of criticism
Literature
The religion of the patriarchs
Voi altri pochi
The reader, the text, the poem
The living principle
Plays (As You Like It / Hamlet)
Multiple authorship and the myth of solitary genius
The United States
Structural models and African poetics
The constitution of literature
The Christology of Mark's Gospel
Think again
Major critical essays
The Library at Night
A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
European literary theory and practice
Studying the novel
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