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The Great War and Modern Memory
1.  The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
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  "Intensely readable dissection of the British Literary response to the Great War. A classic in every sense."
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Minotaur: Poetry in the Nation State
2.  Minotaur: Poetry in the Nation State by Tom Paulin
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  "Idiosyncratic but finely honed essays on the political and historical resonances of English poetry, from one of the sharpest literary minds in the business!"
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The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
3.  The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires
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  "Stake your claim in the greatest novel ever written! The front door key to Joyce's masterpiece."
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This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS)
4.  This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS) by Julia Briggs
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  "Lucid and original introduction to the Elizabethan Age. Will reinvent your reading!"
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The Critical Eye: Appreciating prose and poetry.
5.  The Critical Eye: Appreciating prose and poetry. by Don Shiach
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  "Getting old, but still a great tool to begin serious close critical reading."
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology)
6.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology) by Bruno Bettelheim
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  "Hugely impressive psychological deconstruction of fairy tales. A must to decode magic realism."
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
7.  Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney
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  "A great critic also - following the Yeatsian model! One of poetry's most impressive modern advocates."
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination (Yale Nota Bene)
8.  The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination (Yale Nota Bene) by Sandra Gilbert
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  "Resounding overview of 19th century writing in English by women. Comprehensive, detailed and revolutionary."
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
9.  Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
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  "Founding text of new historicism - the realisation of the self in Renaissance literature"
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Thomas Hardy and British Poetry
10.  Thomas Hardy and British Poetry by Donald Davie
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  "Guide to the roots of modern poetry in English - back to Hardy's Wessex."
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