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Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace.In this Selected Poems, his territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
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The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past. With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the historic past - and...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic skill and huge emotional...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-30
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An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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A selection of our finest writing about the mystery and majesty of the Australian bush. Since settlers and explorers first started recording their experiences of the Australian bush, is has loomed as large in our imaginations as in our landscapes. Sometimes dark and...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2011-11-23
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This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-23
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
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Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
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Cultures in Contact deals with the complex cultural relations surrounding the translation and reception of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel I promessi sposi (1827) in nineteenth-century England and a few years later in America. The critical and methodological perspective of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-21
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Dans le cadre des nouveaux cursus, la didactique des langues étrangères est en train de confirmer son rôle pluridisciplinaire. Les concepts de « plurilinguisme » et d’« interculturalité » sont couramment répandus parmi les universitaires et éducatifs, mais aussi dans...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2011-11-21
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This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-18
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This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillén, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Méndez, and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-18
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This book discusses works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow in terms of the conflicts between rhetorical people (actors replete with ever-changing roles, situations, and strategies, and therefore devoid of single roles) and serious people (actors who possess master...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-11-18
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Reading Victorian Poetry “Richard Cronin’s exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises – reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights into verbal and metrical effects is constant … One of the best general readings of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the years of Edward VII's reign. Those years have long been studied in a British context, but Synge and Edwardian Ireland...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-11-17
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The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward.The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-16
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This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-16
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Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-11
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