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Offers an analysis of the philosophical connection between Hopkins and Heidegger. This monograph argues that the work of Hopkins does no less than propose solutions to a number of hitherto unresolved questions regarding Heidegger's later writings, vitalizing the concepts of both writers beyond their local contexts.

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How far can an author's intentions determine the meanings of his/her text What do we mean by 'intention' in a literary context This book analyses and critique's this concept of intention, its uses within the realms of literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of language, phenomenology and deconstruction, and its potential for redefinition.

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The question of intention is central to the study of literature. This book provides an analysis and critique of this concept of intention, its uses within the realms of literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of language, phenomenology and deconstruction, and its potential for redefinition.

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An examination of work by Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne raising questions about gender, bodies and history in Contemporary Irish fiction. It pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, and between generations.

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This work draws on a wide range of theoretical ideas and approaches to illuminate Coetzee's texts including: deconstruction and the 'school of singularity', ethics and power, gender studies, queer theory, issues surrounding the body and

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Drawing on a range of theoretical ideas and approaches, this book illuminates Coetzee's texts including: deconstruction and the 'school of singularity', ethics and power, gender studies, queer theory, issues surrounding the body and animal rights.

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Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book offers a study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism.

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Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book studies his work and articulates where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. It provides a comprehensive analysis of Franzen's novels, revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by his novels' structure.

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Presents a comparative study, which encourages a way of thinking about Joyce not as an isolated figure but, as someone who is understood in the company of others. This work places Joyce and his time in dialogue with other figures or different historical periods or languages other than English.

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Focusing on Joyce as an Irish and European writer, best understood in the context of other times and writers, including Virginia Woolf, this comparative study is organised in four parts: Joyce and History, Joyce and Language, Joyce and the City, and Joyce and the Contemporary World.

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'Negative capability', the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book clarifies the meaning of the term and offers an anatomy of its key components, and provides an account of the history of this idea.

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Negative capability, the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book studies the concept of Negative capability.

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A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.

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In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably obscure, due to the unavailability of his late works, insufficient articulation of his methodologies and sometimes stereotypical use of Lacanian concepts in literary theory. This study aims to explain Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.

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An original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.

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An exploration of London and gothic representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a variety of media.

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As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This book focuses on Gothic representations of London, and also includes essays from scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media.

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Presents the analysis of the representation of London in post-war fiction from Iris Murdoch to Zadie Smith. 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 transformed alongside the physical rebuilding and repositioning of the capital.

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Presents the analysis of the representation of London in post-war fiction from Iris Murdoch to Zadie Smith, exploring the literary re-imagining of the city in post-war fiction and arguing that the image, history, and narrative of the city has been transformed alongside the physical rebuilding and repositioning of the capital.

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A detailed study of Maggie Gee's work that illustrates how she is rewriting the mid-Victorian condition-of-England novel for 21st-century Britain.

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Provides a critical and cultural theory-based study of male jealousy in western culture and its connections with paranoia. This book traces the meanings of jealousy and the representation of jealous men and argues that jealousy is promoted within patriarchy. It also explores the economy of possession and its relationship to the body.

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Discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, this title maps various districts of the 'west country' to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification.

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Considers four regional writers and their complex relationship with concepts of space and place at a time of seismic social change.

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Explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe onwards, the author devises a compelling concept of literary constellations.