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Explores the study of literature and literary history in the light of globalization and argues that international canonization of books and authors can be used as an instrument for textual analysis of world literature. This title also offers a nuanced understanding of the mechanism of canonization in the international sphere.

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Offers an approach to contemporary literature, emphasising the links in the depiction of marginalized groups in contemporary fiction. This study provides readings of a wide range of contemporary British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society.

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The Marginal as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emphasis on the marginal subject. This title offers readings of a range of British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society.

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Looks at a range of fiction and film texts, since 1950s, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. This work covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers.

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Analyses the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. This book covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers.

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Argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model.

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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.

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Using the work of John Milton and his conflict between good and evil, this title shows how we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession.

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Addresses the ways in which we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession. This book argues that the literary and historical imagery of releasing the radical spirit of a text from the dead weight of received tradition is the dominant doxa of historicism.

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Considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. This title argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of its response and relationship to events overseas.

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A monograph, which surveys the portrayal of finance and money in British fiction. It argues that British fiction demystifies the 'weightless' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere.

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Investigates a new form of fiction in contemporary literature across the globe. This collection of essays identifies and describes this international phenomenon, investigating the appeal of these novels' styles and themes, the reasons behind their success, and the fierce debates they provoked.

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Charts a new international writing phenomenon - 'contemporary extreme literature'.

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Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, the author reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading. He outlines the development of the form, and identifies its characteristics and functions.

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A monograph that analyzes a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. It focuses on four novelists, literary and popular, and interrogates the canon over the years. It unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre.

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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. It argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by style and imaginative power, is often missing in many works that have become modern classics and makes a case for the value of the 'universal' in literature.

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A monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life.

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Analyses the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life. This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers.

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Through the lens of science fiction, this book investigates representations of time in postmodernism.

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Are we living in a post-temporal age Has history come to an end This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and a historical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative 'timeshapes' or chronotopes.

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Is time an illusion Do past, present, and future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the reality of time This title draws on Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" to examine of the workings of narrative time in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, including "Against the Day".

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Undertakes a comparative analysis of the works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, placing the fiction and non-fiction of both writers in relation to the broader cultural, social and political contexts of London from 1979.

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This work offers an important insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds.