Litteraturvetenskap: från 1900

»Ett musikaliskt flyt, en förförisk språklig rytm som får en att sukta efter mer. Längre penseldrag av berättande kombineras med korta, intensiva stötar. Det är både intellektuellt och punkigt, avancerat och naivt.« |SvD »Kate Zambreno skär som me...

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"Den mest spännande fackboken som går att hitta i bokhandeln nu [ . . . ] En thriller - i fackbokskostym!" Jenny Lindh, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. Det gick fort: februari 1933 var månaden då allt förändrades i Tyskland. Måndagen den 30 januari ut...

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Postmodernismen hör till de senaste decenniernas mest inflytelserika teorier. I När postmodernismen kom till Sverige skildrar Johan Lundberg hur det postmoderna tankegodset slog igenom på svenska kultursidor och i kretsen kring Svenska Akademien p...

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Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker i DN! »Ett musikaliskt flyt, en förförisk språklig rytm som får en att sukta efter mer. Längre penseldrag av berättande kombineras med korta, intensiva stötar. Det är både intellektuellt och punkigt, avancerat...

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"Den mest spännande fackboken som går att hitta i bokhandeln nu [ . . . ] En thriller - i fackbokskostym!" Jenny Lindh, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. Det gick fort: februari 1933 var månaden då allt förändrades i Tyskland. Måndagen den 30 januari ut...

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Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht har besegrat Frankrike. Gestapo letar efter Heinrich Mann och Franz Werfel, efter Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger och otaliga andra tyska författare som har flytt till Frankrike sedan maktövertagandet 1933. Amerikanen...

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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King - with a new foreword, ON JOY, by Stephen King. Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practic...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Vi...

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En ny volym i sviten Franz Kafkas samlade skrifter. Denna volym har fått titeln Eftersom jag älskar dig älskar jag hela världen och innehåller brev som Kafka skrev under perioden juli till december 1920. För översättning och kommentarer står Hans ...

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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow ...

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From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sh...

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Elizabeth Smarts passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening A masterpiece. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Sma...

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Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen De...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take ones chance in another en...

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A monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.

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The Autogiography of Alice B. Toklas is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography, seen through the eyes of her friend, Alice B. Toklas. With occasional glimpses into her early life, it describes her years in Paris until 1932.

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A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homema...

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Drawing on psychology, philosophy, and literature, William James's classic survey of religious belief gathers testimony from a huge range of diverse sources to construct a defence of the individual religious experience. It speaks powerfully to the...

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Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, ...

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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing The Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a wor...

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'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall Slipstream unearths the remarkable life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of Britain's most bel...

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Vad betyder hemmet? Inom feminismen betraktas hemmet ofta som instängt och hindrande -- en tvångströja för kvinnan. Och rent allmänt finns en etablerad syn på hemmet som en omgärdad och stillastående motpol till det brusande livet ute i världen. M...

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First published in 1961, Sartre: The Origins of a Style is a striking attempt not merely to analyze Sartre's work formally, from an aesthetic perspective but above all to replace Sartre in literary history itself. As a study of Sartre's writings t...

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'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to ever...

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This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, fi...

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He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new b...

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