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The Sublime Artist’s Studio
In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his...
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Beckett, Technology and the Body
Critics have often focused on interiority in Beckett's works, privileging the mind over the body. In this new approach, the first sustained analysis...
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Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel
Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly ‘apolitical’ and ‘ahistorical’ writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice. Placing...
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The Persistence of Modernism
Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we explain its...
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Lucretian Receptions
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important...
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The Poetry of Chartism
Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1,000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as the...
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Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare’s plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices...
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Singular Examples
This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial "compositions"—verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and...
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Daniil Kharms - Writing and the Event
The "texts" of Russian artist and thinker Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) were so many and varied and often unique (narrative, dramatic,...
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Constraining Chance
A token of the world’s instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems:...
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The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its...
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Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story
Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance....
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The Emergence of Social Space
A thrilling rise through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.
“A rare example of cultural studies done with zest...
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The Medium is the Massage
In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and...
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In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures
After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the...
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Sorlet från arkiven
Alltsedan den moderna historiografin föddes har arkivet utgjort samhällets minne. Men Michel Foucault utmanade samma historiografi och lät arkivet...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost
Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon...
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Melankolin i spegeln
Melankolin var den franske diktaren Charles Baudelaires intima följeslagare. Med skiftande intensitet är ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe
Much remains uncertain about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, the mysterious author of one of the best-known American poems, 'The Raven', the Gothic...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly...
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Studying English Literature
Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing...
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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature's enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the...
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