Creature and Creator

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CUP Archive, Mar 15, 1984 - Literary Criticism - 256 pages
This vocabulary text helps beginning students gain knowledge of basic North American English vocabulary. This North American English edition of the popular English Vocabulary in Use series is appropriate for classroom use and for self-study reference and practice. An easy-to-use format presents a content or grammar-based area of vocabulary on the left-hand page and innovative practice activities on the right-hand page. Sixty units cover approximately 1,200 new vocabulary items. Firmly based on current vocabulary acquisition theory, Vocabulary in Use promotes good learning habits and teaches students how to discover rules for using vocabulary correctly. Both an intermediate and upper-intermediate level are also available. Each level offers an index with phonetic transcriptions and a complete answer key, as well as an edition without answers.

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Contents

I
29
The Myth Unbound
55
The Prelude to Apocalypse
77
The Nightmare of Romantic Idealism
103
The Metaphysical Rebel
135
Romantic Myth and Tragic Vision
156
Conclusion
181
Notes
195
Index
217
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About the author (1984)

Paul A. Cantor has authored dozens of articles in various publications and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and The American Enterprise, Cantor lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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