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Adam Watt's critical study of Proust's     A la recherche du temps perdu, focuses on the role of the acts of reading depicted in the seminal novel. Reading is shown to be a formative and often troubling force in the life of the novel's narrator....

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In this volume, Alex Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments of emotional intensity. Zautra masterfully integrates research and theory on emotion and stress,...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the        African, first published in England in 1789, was one of the earliest and remains to        this day one of the best-known English language slave narratives. Characterizing        Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of...

Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory,...