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This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison’s life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly «American» author read literature and scholarship from across the world and has in turn been widely read outside the borders...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2021-09-10
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'Razor-sharp and as funny as I May Destroy You ... a gifted writer' Sunday Times | 'A perfect truth-teller of our time' ELLE | 'Leaps off the page' Observer | 'Comic and devastating' New York Times | 'Your self-help bible of 2021' Sunday Times | Profound, hilarious,...
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Ebury Digital
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2021-09-07
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'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not...
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White Rabbit
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2021-09-02
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Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially describe the...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-07-29
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Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person—through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour. Attending to these encounters, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour reroutes our understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person—through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour. Attending to these encounters, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour reroutes our understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-24
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge andWilliam...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-24
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Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France and mothers are narrators and key protagonists in nearly all Marie NDiaye’s novels and short stories. These mothers rarely strike the reader as attractive personalities and, in...
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NBN International
Parution :
2021-06-18
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From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.'A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life' The Evening...
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Penguin
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2021-05-13
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In March 1949 the security service MI5 received notice of a suspect person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an...
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NBN International
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2021-04-28
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A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.
Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-22
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A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.
Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-22
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Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture questions how a wide selection of restrictive norms come to bear on the body, through a close analysis of a range of texts, media and genres originating from across the francophone world and spanning the twentieth and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-19
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El Diccionario histórico fraseológico del español (DHISFRAES). MUESTRA ARQUETÍPICA ofrece un repertorio concentrado de unidades fraseológicas de carácter adverbial y prepositivo representativo de diferentes períodos históricos de la lengua española. Los datos, obtenidos...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-04-14
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Negli ultimi decenni il tema identitario italiano è stato oggetto di indagini e ri_ essioni da parte di numerosi studiosi italiani e stranieri. La discussione oggi appare aver raggiunto un approdo, che tuttavia vede ampliarsi lo spettro delle risorse simboliche, sia...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2021-04-12
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From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-04-08
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From Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic—and occasional misery—of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic anthology.In the revised edition of this classic...
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Seal Press
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2021-04-06
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There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.Empire Windrush...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-03-25
Collection :
Caribbean Contemporary Classics
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There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.Written as a...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-03-25
Collection :
Caribbean Contemporary Classics
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A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an...
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Transworld Digital
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2021-02-11
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