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Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy
Expressive Rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Theory
Av Simon Swift
Häftad, 2008
640 kr
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'This book carves out a distinctive and important space in the border-zone between philosophy, literary theory, and cultural history.' Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy, Cardiff University 'Swift's remarkable [book] stands out as a highly theoretical study in at …
Dickens, Christianity and 'The Life of Our Lord'
Humble Veneration, Profound Conviction
Inbunden, 2009
2437 kr
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The Life of Our Lord" is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published until 1934. This is the first major study to carefully and seriously consider the work and its place in the Dickens corpus. While Dickens' religion and religious thought is recognized as a …
Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze
Transformative Intensities
Av Jon Clay
Inbunden, 2010
2275 kr
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Poetry is composed of sensation: this Deleuze-Guattarian assertion is central to a Deleuzian poetics that provides a fruitful approach to the difficulties of innovative literature and poetry in particular. This book is a clear exposition of a Deleuzian approach to literature that treats the …
Doris Lessing
Border Crossings
Av Alice Ridout, Susan Watkins
Inbunden, 2009
2437 kr
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This is an edited collection offering up-to-date critical coverage of a wide range of Lessing's work. Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her …
London Narratives
Post-War Fiction and the City
Häftad, 2011
640 kr
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The post-war redevelopment of London has been the most extensive in its history, and has been accompanied by a dramatic social and cultural upheaval. This book explores the literary re-imagining of the city in post-war fiction and argues that the image, history, and narrative of the city has been …
Fictions of Globalization
Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American Novel
Häftad, 2008
640 kr
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The globalization debate has become a dominant question in many disciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studies in the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on reading contemporary novels in relation to globalization.Interpreting recent American fiction in …
Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon
Av Nick Turner
Inbunden, 2010
2275 kr
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This is a monograph analysing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the …
Troubling Legacies
Migration, Modernism and Fascism in the Case of Knut Hamsun
Inbunden, 2010
2275 kr
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Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920, and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida and Sigmund Freud, Troubling Legacies analyses the …
Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought
Inbunden, 2009
2275 kr
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Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this ambitious study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Bataille, Sartre and Barthes used literature and art to engage with the question of reconceptualizing society. In …
Joyce and Company
Av David Pierce
Häftad, 2008
640 kr
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This is a comparative study focusing on Joyce as an Irish and European writer, best understood in the context of other times and writers, including Virginia Woolf."Joyce and Company" is a comparative study which encourages a way of thinking about Joyce not as an isolated figure but as someone who …
Mapping the Wessex Novel
Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940
Inbunden, 2010
2437 kr
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This title considers four regional writers and their complex relationship with concepts of space and place at a time of seismic social change. By discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, "Mapping the Wessex Novel" imaginatively maps and excavates …
Beckett's Books
A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes
Häftad, 2009
640 kr
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Samuel Beckett is a challenging giant of 20th century literature, and Beckett studies increasingly focus on the interwar period for evidence of Beckett's subsequent embrace of an 'art of failure'. This monograph is based on close analysis of the newly-released notebooks and transcriptions compiled …
Aesthetic Afterlives
Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty
Inbunden, 2011
2437 kr
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This an original theoretical reading of the emergence of British literary modernity, beginning with Victorian Aestheticism and tracing its afterlives into the 21st Century. Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870's, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are …
Melville, Mapping and Globalization
Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer
Inbunden, 2009
2437 kr
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This monograph offers a new interpretation of Melville's work (focusing on "Moby-Dick", "Pierre" and "Benito Cereno") in the light of scholarship on globalization from critics in 'new' American studies. In "Melville, Mapping and Globalization", Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in …
London Narratives
Post-War Fiction and the City
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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The post-war redevelopment of London has been the most extensive in its history, and has been accompanied by a dramatic social and cultural upheaval. This book explores the literary re-imagining of the city in post-war fiction and argues that the image, history, and narrative of the city has been …
Milton, Evil and Literary History
Inbunden, 2008
2599 kr
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"Milton, Evil and Literary History" addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. Goodness has always been aligned with a life of expansion, creation, production and fruition, while evil is …
Modernism and the Post-Colonial
Literature and Empire 1885-1930
Av Peter Childs
Inbunden, 2007
1790 kr
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This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide with both the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the …
Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy
Expressive Rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Theory
Av Simon Swift
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy proposes a radical revisioning of Romantic literature by developing a new insight into its philosophical importance. It challenges both a number of recent attacks on philosophical reason, and new historicist readings of Romanticism, by arguing that they …
Masculinity in Fiction and Film
Representing men in popular genres, 1945-2000
Av Brian Baker
Inbunden, 2006
2275 kr
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This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. It covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and …
Active Reading
Transformative Writing in Literary Studies
Av Ben Knights, Chris Thurgar-Dawson
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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The subject of this book is the crossover between critical study and creative writing. 'Active reading' is a structured process of writing activities using imitation, variation and experimentation. Through practical composition techniques such as 'transformational writing', 're-writing' or …
Women's Fiction 1945-2005
Writing Romance
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a …
Character and Satire in Post War Fiction
Av Ian Gregson
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known post-war novelists, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist …
Contemporary Fiction and Christianity
Av Andrew Tate
Inbunden, 2007
2437 kr
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How does contemporary fiction engage with the claims and ideas of Christian theology? Can 'secular fictions' accommodate transcendent experiences or encounters with the divine? Does belief continue to influence the shape of fiction in any meaningful way? This study argues against the idea that the …
English Fiction in the 1930s
Language, Genre, History
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or …
Beckett's Books
A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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By assessing notebooks and transcriptions taken by Samuel Beckett and recently released by the Beckett International Foundation archive, this book subjects Samuel Beckett's unpublished notes and sources to an analysis of their utility to his life and writings, during the interwar period - …
Novels of the Contemporary Extreme
Av Alain-Philippe Durand, Naomi Mandel
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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This book investigates a new form of fiction that is currently emerging in contemporary literature across the globe. 'Novels of the extreme' - from North and South America, from Europe, the Middle East and Asia - are set in a world both similar to and different from our own: a hyper-real, often …
Joyce and Company
Av David Pierce
Inbunden, 2006
2437 kr
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"Joyce and Company" is a comparative study which encourages a way of thinking about Joyce not as an isolated figure but as someone who is best understood in the company of others whether from the past, the present or, indeed, the imagined future. Throughout, Pierce places Joyce and his time in …
Since Beckett
Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism
Av Peter Boxall
Inbunden, 2009
2437 kr
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This is a fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence. Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which …
Seeking Meaning for Goethe's Faust
Inbunden, 2007
2437 kr
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Faust stories are found across the ages and the arts. From its earliest to most recent expressions, the Faust figure continues to capture our imagination, dealing with problems and themes that are still relevant for a twenty-first century audience. Of the many variations on the Faust-myth, Goethe's …
Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad
Inbunden, 2007
2437 kr
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Awarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does …
