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Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion,...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-26
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Between Medieval Men argues for the importance of synoptically examining the whole range of same-sex relations in the Anglo-Saxon period, revisiting well-known texts and issues (as well as material often considered marginal) from a radically different perspective. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-26
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In recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed as an authentic part of popular culture. A vivid account of Shakespeare in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-02-25
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This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-17
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Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-02-16
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The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish birth or background who lived and worked in Britain between 1725 and the present day. It offers a stimulating and provocative introduction to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-12
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'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'
As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-12
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'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.'
Clarendon's massive History has since its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-12
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'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.'
Clarendon's massive History has since its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-12
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Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today's most popular television shows and films thrive on the type...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, especially...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The first systematic survey of the most important and popular recent films about Roman antiquity. Shows...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The first systematic survey of the most important and popular recent films about Roman antiquity. Shows how...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Reading the Novel in English 1950–2000; “This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer’s close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Reading the Novel
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This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. Designed to be used alongside primary theoretical texts as an introduction to theory or alongside literary texts as a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Guides to Literature
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The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
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