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This book explores the relationship between H.G. Wells's scientific romances and the discourses of science in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. It investigates how Wells utilizes his early fiction to participate in a range of topical scientific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-17
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Traditionally literary modernism has been seen as a movement marked by transcendent epiphanies, episodes of estrangement, and a privileging of the extraordinary. Yet modernist writings often take great pains to describe the material, seemingly insignificant details of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-16
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This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-14
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The Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-13
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This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-13
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography ofHelen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography ofHelen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era Includes fresh insights into...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-03
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Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
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Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-31
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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. Focuses on the key themes to emerge from Spivak’s work, such as ethics, literature, feminism,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
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Usinga method that combines analysis, memoir, and polemic, McGee writes experimentally about a series of thinkers who ruptured linguistic and social hierarchies, fromMarx, to Gramsci, to Badiou.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-30
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This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and intellectual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-26
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The first of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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