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(Hardback)

By: Dr Lorna Fitzsimmons

ISBN: 9781847060044
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A collection of essays, presenting international perspectives on the Faust theme in literature, theatre, performance, music, film, and dance. It examines questions of adaptation, translation and reception centering on a diversity of cultural traditions, including the Chinese, African, Brazilian, Indian and Canadian, as well as the European.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Dr Lorna Fitzsimmons

ISBN: 9781441155061
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A collection of essays by leading scholars presenting international perspectives on adaptation, reception and translation of the Faust theme in literature, theatre and music.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Lana Asfour

ISBN: 9780826495426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The early reception of Laurence Sterne in France was vocal and controversial, reflecting the literary and social upheaval of the period. This monograph offers original readings of Sterne and his French interpreters, such as Voltaire, Diderot, Suard, and Julie de Lespinasse, placing them within the context of eighteenth-century French culture.


(Hardback)

By: Dr John Morton

ISBN: 9781441102379
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents a study of allusions to Alfred Tennyson's poetry in works of fiction from the Victorian period onwards. This title focuses on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history. It covers various novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, and looks at their approach to writing.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Professor Domhnall Mitchell

ISBN: 9781441122025
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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The first truly international collection of essays on Dickinson covering her reception in Europe, South America, Israel and Japan.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Domhnall Mitchell

ISBN: 9780826497154
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Emily Dickinson's poetry is known and read worldwide but there have been no studies of her reception and influence outside America. This title presents a collection of essays on Dickinson covering her reception in abroad including translations, circulation and the responses of private and professional readers to her poetry in different countries.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Dr Mark Nixon

ISBN: 9781441123183
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A collection of research by leading scholars on the international reception of Beckett.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Mark Nixon

ISBN: 9780826495815
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Samuel Beckett's popularity has rocketed around the world and he is recognised as one of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century. This book brings together essays from leading critics on Beckett's international critical reception.


(Hardback)

By: Elisabeth Dumer

ISBN: 9780826490148
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Brings together a wide range of international perspectives on TS Eliot, an influential twentieth-century author, who as poet, critic, and editor did much to shape modernist poetics, not only in Europe and North America, but also world-wide.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Steve Clark

ISBN: 9780826490070
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focuses attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake's reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. This book offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of an inspiring presence, rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Steve Clark

ISBN: 9780826438058
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focuses attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake's reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. This book offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of an inspiring presence, rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Annika Bautz

ISBN: 9780826495464
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Of all the great novelists of the Romantic period, only two, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, have been continuously reprinted, admired, argued about, and read, from the moment their works first appeared. This study traces how Scott's 19th-century success among all classes of readers made him the most admired and most widely read novelist in history.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: John Williams

ISBN: 9781441131218
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A new analysis of Wordsworth's reception in nineteenth-century Germany.


(Hardback)

By: John Williams

ISBN: 9780826490162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyzes the reception of William Wordsworth's poetry in 19th century Germany in relation to other romantic poets. This book establishes the wider presence of many others translating, anthologizing and commenting on Wordsworth poetry and beliefs.