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1. Literary form, philosophical content : historical studies of philosophical genres

   Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2010.

2. Probability and literary form : philosophic theory and literary practice in the Augustan age

   Patey, Douglas Lane

   Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

   This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England. By examining in particular Augustan notions of probability and the way they provided a framework for thinking about and organising experience, Dr Patey reconstructs a characteristically eighteenth-century theory of literature which offers a much more satisfactory account of the work of Pope, Johnson, Fielding and others than the Romantic literary categories already in existence. The scope of this study is encyclopaedic and it will be an essential reference work for all scholars of eighteenth-century English literature and intellectual history, as well as historians of ideas.

3. Literary form as postcolonial critique : epic proportions

   Burkitt, Katharine

   Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.

   Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Burkitt argues that these works disrupt and undermine the traditions of particular forms and genres, and most notably the expectations attached to the prose novel, poetry, and epic. This subversion of form, Burkitt argues, is an important aspect of the texts' postcoloniality as they locate themselves critically in relation to literary convention, and they are all concerned with matters of social, racial, and national identities in a world where these categories are inherently complicated. In addition, the awareness of epic tradition in these texts unites them as 'post-epics', in that as they reuse the myths and motifs of a variety of epics, they question the status of the form, demonstrate it to be inherently malleable, and regenerate its stories for the contemporary world. As she examines the ways in which postcolonial texts rewrite the traditions of classical epics for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Burkitt ties close textual analysis to a critical intervention in the politics of form.

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1. Bowles's new pocket plan with the cities of London & Westminster with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1783 (Raster Image)

   Grossner, Karl, 1951- and Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793

   1783

   This raster layer is a georeferenced image of a map originally created by Carington Bowles in 1783. The scanned map file was georectified for use i...