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Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction

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Word Order Change

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Etymological Collections of English Words and Provincial Expressions

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From a Rational Point of View : How We Represent Subjective Perspectives in Practical Discourse

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Puzzles of Reference

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The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670

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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature : The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

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Marginality, Canonicity, Passion

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Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

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The Fame of C. S. Lewis : A Controversialist's Reception in Britain and America

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Shaping the Geography of Empire : Man and Nature in Herodotus' Histories

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Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose

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John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange : The Minor Eras

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Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire : Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy

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