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Provides a structured process of writing activities using imitation, variation and experimentation. This work contains practical composition techniques such as 'transformational writing', 're-writing' or 'translation'. It also includes appendices with examples of the range of activities that can be used and an indicative list of literary examples.

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Highlights the value of creative and re-creative transformational writing in learning and teaching and provides practical examples of its application. This book outlines the importance of writing as a medium of learning and argues for its usefulness in aiding English students' understanding of theoretical as well as literary and cultural texts.

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Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this title investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and Modernism.

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Death is indisputably central to Beckett's writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett's poems, novels, plays and short stories through considerations of mortality and death. It includes chapters that explore the theme of deathliness in relation to Beckett's work as a whole, through three main approaches.

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A collection of research by international scholars on Beckett, as well as younger academics, analysing a number of Beckett's poems, plays and short stories through consideration of mortality and death. It explores the theme of deathliness in relation to Beckett's work as a whole.

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Explores the concept of decay as providing the fundamental core of Beckett's work, examining the theme of decay in terms of physical, mental and linguistic deterioration.

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The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook. This book explores the concept of decay as providing the fundamental core of Beckett's work, examining the theme of decay in terms of physical, mental and linguistic deterioration.

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An international team of contributors examine how Beckett's work from the famous "siege in the room" of 1945-50 might be seen as responding to specific ethical crises of post-war Europe.

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What is the relation between Beckett's work and the ethical Is Beckett's work profoundly ethical in its implications, as both humanist and deconstructionist readings have insisted in their different ways This collection of essays seeks to map out this debate in Beckett criticism.

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A collection of research by some of the leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work. It examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds.

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A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work.

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A genuinely ground-breaking study of Beckett's notes on his reading during the interwar years, now available in paperback for the first time.

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Samuel Beckett is a canonical, if challenging, giant of 20th century literature. This monograph is based on an analysis of the notebooks and transcriptions compiled by Beckett from 1929-1940, which shed important insight into Beckett's working methods, original sources and literary development.

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This study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.

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Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. This study applies Kierkegaard's "Concept of Anxiety" to Blake's creation myths to explain how Enlightenment personality conceptions created fear of independently thinking beings.

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Drawing on the theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. It explores these three claims through the concept of incarnation.

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Offers an analysis of Bret Easton Ellis' works, focusing on their reception, popular culture influences, and literary style. This book contains a study of the reception of each novel, the influence of popular, mass and consumer culture in them, and the analysis of their literary style.

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Focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing. This book combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature.

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Examines the ways mid-twentieth century writers represent chance, arguing that their depictions of, and anxieties about, chance mark a new relationship between author and narrative.

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Analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. This monograph also analyses some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self.

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This book, new in paperback, offers new readings of novels by major British and American postwar novelists.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition.

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