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Basic Ingredients and Useful Terms | |
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It's Just a Theory | |
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You Can't Help It | |
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So Which Is It, Theory or Criticism? | |
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Getting Some Perspective | |
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Suspicious Minds | |
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Do Writers Know All This Stuff? | |
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Stick to the Script | |
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Real Worlds and Real Words | |
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What's the Word for That, Again? | |
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Two Sides of the Coin | |
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Theme | |
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Form | |
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Order, Please | |
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Plot | |
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Motif | |
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Who Are These People? | |
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Narrators | |
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Characterization | |
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Writers Love Details | |
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Imagery | |
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Figurative Language | |
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In Theory, How Do You Read? | |
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New Criticism Looks Very Closely | |
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Everything Fits Together | |
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Buy Organic | |
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Can't I Just Read? | |
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In Other Words, There Are No Other Words | |
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Reading Closely for What? | |
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There's a Pattern Here | |
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No, You're Not Reading Too Much Into It | |
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Ironic, Isn't It? | |
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What's Wrong with "Old" Criticism? | |
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Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings | |
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Did the Author Really Mean That? | |
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Everyone's a Critic | |
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Who Begs to Differ? | |
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Russian Formalism Fixates on the Machinery | |
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Look At the Text, Not Through It | |
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Not Content with Form and Content | |
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A Scientific Basis for Literary Study | |
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Why Did They Do This? | |
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It's What Art Really Is | |
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Habit Dulls Our Perception | |
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Make the Ordinary Strange | |
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Make the Artistry Obvious | |
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Revealing the Tricks | |
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Plot vs. Story-Stuff | |
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Literary History Is the Interplay of Form | |
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Reader-Response Criticism Watches Itself | |
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In the Eye of the Beholder | |
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Making It Up as You Go Along | |
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Show Your Work | |
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Draw a Blank | |
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Crack the Code | |
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Making You Up as It Goes Along | |
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"You" Are There | |
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Group Dynamics | |
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Getting Real | |
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Regaining Consciousness | |
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Aristotle and Friends Plot the Course | |
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Reading for Fun and (Intellectual) Profit | |
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Delightful Instruction | |
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Get It Out of Your System, or Not | |
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Mime in a Box | |
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Plot Changes Everything | |
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The Rules of the Game | |
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One Ring to Rule Them All | |
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They're Just Guidelines, Really | |
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What Is Literature, Anyway? | |
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Plato's Fundamental Gripe Against Literature | |
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What's the Big Idea Here? | |
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Me and My Shadows | |
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A True Original | |
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Cheat Sheets | |
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Writers Blocked | |
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Bad Influence | |
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Madness and Magnets | |
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Famous Platonic Relationships | |
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The Romantics Get Defensive | |
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Plato II: Revenge of the Poets | |
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A Sincere Apology | |
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It's Just My Nature | |
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Wordsworth's Emotional Rescue | |
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Coleridge's Fevered Imagination | |
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Keats and Beautiful Truthiness | |
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Shelley Gets Played Like a Harp | |
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Marx Sees Through the Material World | |
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Immersed in the System | |
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Alma Mater-ialism | |
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Let's Simplify Things | |
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Living the Dream | |
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Wake Up and Smell the Ideology | |
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Get Real | |
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Shocking Audiences Worldwide | |
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Return of the Repressed | |
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Freud Sees a Symptom | |
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Thinking Big | |
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What Do You Have in Mind? | |
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Dream Weaving | |
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Literature on the Couch | |
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Must Be About Sex | |
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Unless It's About Death | |
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Saussure and Science Settle Into a Good Read | |
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Must Be a Sign | |
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Adding Some Structure | |
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Just a Slice, Please | |
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It's Your Move | |
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Stop in for Great Values | |
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Everybody Gets in On the Act | |
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It's All in Your Head | |
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Hey, Whose Book Is This? | |
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Feminist Theories Change the Game | |
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Is This Pedestal High Enough for You? | |
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Particularly Universal | |
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It's Only Natural, Isn't It? | |
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Girl, That Rochester Is Bad News | |
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Diving Into the Stereotypists' Pool | |
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Writing Circles Around You | |
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Evolving Phases | |
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Body Works | |
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What Do You Mean, "We"? | |
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Gender and Queer Theories Read Desire | |
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Tending Gender | |
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Typecasting Sexuality | |
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Pride Fest | |
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Beyond Stonewall | |
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Lesbian Revisions | |
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It's Showtime! | |
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Beyond Gay and Straight | |
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Ethnic Studies Changes the Key | |
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Are You What You Read? | |
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National Sensations | |
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Please Check One of the Boxes | |
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American Autograph | |
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Write Makes Might | |
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Modern Subjects | |
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Theory Turns | |
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Reading Like a Writer | |
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Well, That Figures | |
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Borders and Belongings | |
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Disability Studies Gets Physical | |
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Social Ills | |
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Marked Bodies | |
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Stormin' Normin' | |
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Posing Gender | |
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Book It | |
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Learn on Me | |
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I See What You Mean | |
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Thinking Otherwise | |
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Aud, Isn't It? | |
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Try to Watch Your Language | |
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Structuralism Senses a Pattern Here | |
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Patterns and Rules | |
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Not What It Means, but How Does It Mean? | |
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Oh That Old Chestnut (or, Why So Grimm?) | |
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Working the Story | |
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Logical Tools | |
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Jung at Art (or, Swingin' a Myth) | |
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It's the Economy | |
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Does This Tie Match My Signifying System? | |
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Great Expectations | |
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So You Say | |
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Deconstruction Says It's Not What You Think | |
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Philosophy's Low Opinion of Language | |
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Truth First | |
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With Writing in Mind | |
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Bye-Bye Binary | |
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Texting from Work | |
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Living in the Material Word | |
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Psychology Brings Linguistics to the Couch | |
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Post-Structuralist Mind | |
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Mirror, Mirror, Then the Wall | |
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Subjects of Significance | |
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Getting Saussure Stuck in Your Head | |
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Chain Letters | |
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Taking Your Place | |
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Baby Talk (Or, a Womb with a View) | |
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Who's Pulling the Strings? | |
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In the World and Of the World | |
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Cultural Studies Tries to Ruin a Good Time | |
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High Fives for High Culture | |
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The Culture Industry | |
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Enlighten Me-No, Don't | |
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New Forms for New Minds | |
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Making Copies | |
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Material Feelings | |
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Freaky Styley | |
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Who Are Your References? | |
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What Just Happened? | |
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The Pastiche Prologue | |
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Wait, Let Me Finish | |
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History Gets Literary | |
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New and Improved | |
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Plotting Along in the Past | |
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There's Culture in My Poetry! | |
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Making the Connections | |
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Knowing Looks | |
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Doesn't Know When to Quit | |
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Russian Legacy | |
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I Hear Voices | |
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Step Into My Parlor | |
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Postcolonial Criticism Flaunts the Fashions | |
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Reading Between the Lands | |
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Us and Them | |
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Return to Thornfield | |
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Look at It This Way | |
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Other Others | |
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Choosing Your Words Carefully | |
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Are You Lookin' at Me? | |
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Ecocriticism Offers a Word from Our Sponsor | |
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Hit the Ground Running | |
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It's Writing, Naturally | |
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Portrait of the Land as a Young Woman | |
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Varieties of Ecocritical Experience | |
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Seeing But Not Scene | |
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Collective Energies | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |