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Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-07
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A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-12-07
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American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engagedAmerican writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning Covers a range of genres including...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-12-03
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The religious precepts of the Puritans continued to affect intellectual life in the U.S. long after the immigrants arrived at Massachusetts Bay, circulating through New England culture well into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using three emblematic...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-03
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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-12-03
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Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But...
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Orbit UK
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2010-12-02
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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-02
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In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-11-30
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A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media, politics and the workplace; what discursive identities are constructed; and how interpersonal relations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-30
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Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic world threaded...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-11-30
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In his most eloquent and formally satisfying collection to date, Alan Jenkins plays a series of powerful and haunting variations on love and loss. The themes that run through our lives are relatively few, for all that they sound subtly different to each of us, with...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-11-30
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When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm.
This book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-30
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When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm.
This book...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-30
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In the Middle Ages Ireland's extensive and now famous literature was unknown outside the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man - with Wales an important exception. Irish emigrants had settled in Wales from the fifth century onwards, Irish...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-25
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This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-11-24
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Die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigt, daß die Konstellation von Idylle und Tragik nicht nur als Schlüssel für die strukturgesetzliche Eigenart des goetheschen Spätwerks dient, sondern darüberhinaus seinen literaturgeschichtlichen Ort zu kennzeichnen vermag.Die beiden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Einen Ort kann man in Gedichten, Briefen, Autobiographien, Essays oder Romanen beschreiben, aber eine Gattung ist dafür besonders geeignet: der Reisebericht. Die Geschichte der Reisebeschreibung zeigt, wie die zentralen Kategorien dieses literarischen Genres sich...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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«Dew on the Grass»: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic dimensions of Anton Chekhov’s prose and drama. Using the concept of «inbetweenness», this book reconceptualizes the central aspects of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy – Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man’s River (1997), and Bone By Bone (1999) – which draws together themes Matthiessen has been exploring both in his fiction and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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