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Literature of Post-Communist Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania
A Study
Häftad, 2007
560 kr
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Based on extensive interviews with authors, editors, and publishers in four countries, this book examines the economic, social, and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. The end of the communist regime has …
Mid-Lands
A Family Album
Häftad, 2010
457 kr
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Mapping out a cosmos bounded by heaven, hell, Kansas City, and St. Louis, Robert Murray Davis looks back on his life in central Missouri in the 1940s and 1950s. As he recalls his youth and early adulthood in the town of Boonville, Davis wryly contemplates some of the sharp dichotomies by which his …
Waugh without End
New Trends in Evelyn Waugh Studies
Av Carlos Villar Flor, Robert Murray Davis
Häftad, 2005
1394 kr
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Compiled on the occasion of Evelyn Waugh’s centenary in 2003, this collection of essays shows a renewed critical interest in the author extended by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The contributions go back to an international symposium held at La Rioja University, 15-17 May 2003. Apart …
Playing Cowboys
Low Culture and High Art in the Western
Häftad, 1994
283 kr
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In Playing Cowboys, Robert Murray Davis examines the Western hero-a principal image of American manhood since publication of The Virginian-as portrayed by a variety of post-World War II novelists and filmmakers. Innovative artists have used the Western to discuss issues of ethics and aesthetics, …
Ornamental Hermit
People and Places of the New West
Inbunden, 2004
297 kr
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In eighteenth-century England, some wealthy people built ruins on their estates, hired hermits to inhabit them, and took guests to view the pictures que results. While no one hires ornamental hermits anymore, society as a whole supports people like Thoreau or Edward Abbey who step aside to comment …
