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Theater and world
A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory
Paradise lost and the rhetoric of literary forms
Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925
A glossary of literary terms
Dionysus writes
Society and sentiment
An aesthetics of junk fiction
Persius and the programmatic satire
The Routledge dictionary of literary terms
Literary terms
Literary Theory
Shakespeare and the spectacles of strangeness
Literary terms and criticism
The philosophy of literary form
A glossary of contemporary literary theory
A handbook of literary terms
Satire and the transformation of genre
Genre choices, gender questions
Reading Games
Leap into poetry
Contexts of war
The pursuit of form
Self & form in modern narrative
Gothic
The weaver-god, he weaves
Verse with prose from Petronius to Dante
American travel narratives as a literary genre from 1542 to 1832
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