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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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Masculinity Under Construction analyzes Black male identity through the works of various authors from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. The book discusses the works of canonical Black authors from the pan-African diaspora in order to identify similarities in the construction of male identity in global Black communities.

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Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Each chapter provides a biography, a plot summary, a discussion of themes, major characters, and dramatic art, and a survey of the play's historical background and critical reception.

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The Romantic movement led to some of the greatest works of 19th-century American literature.

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The writers of the Beat Generation wrote during a particularly chaotic period in modern history. The writers of the Beat Generation wrote during a particularly chaotic time in modern American history, as they confronted the threat of a nuclear war, the rise of anti-Communist hysteria, and the growing pressure to conform to social conventions.

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Flourishing during the first 2 decades of the 20th century, British Modernism gave birth to some of the world's most influential literary works. An introductory essay surveys and defines Modernism, and a bibliography cites works for further reading.

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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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Giving an introduction to ancient Greek drama, this book overviews 10 works of ancient Greek drama in their political, historical, and cultural context. It is designed for school students and undergraduates, with chapters including information about the playwright's life and dramatic style, the role of myth in the play, a plot summary, and more.

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This volume provides a critical introduction to eight landmark novels in 19th- and 20th-century French literature, including The Plague, Madame Bovary, and The Little Prince.

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An overview for students of 10 major works of modern British and Irish drama. This volume concisely and conveniently introduces 10 masterpieces of British and Irish drama in an accessible manner. It overviews the historical and intellectual background of modern British and Irish drama and includes individual chapters on 10 major plays.

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While American and European writers are still central to the high school curriculum, more and more students and teachers are discovering the great literary works outside the Western tradition.

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Some works of philosophy also stand as significant contributions to literature, and some works of literature have profoundly influenced philosophy.

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This book investigates how contemporary post-apocalyptic novels place maternal characters at the forefront of rebuilding and reconceiving a devastated world. By overturning patriarchal assumptions about the post-catastrophe world and women's place in it, the writers of the maternal post-apocalypse offer a (re)vision of speculative literature.

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Arnold is among the most inaccessible of 19th-century poets, a fact of which he himself was well aware. Asking a great deal of his readers, he expected them to share his remote excitements and to follow his complicated intellectual processes. This study of Arnold's major poetic ideas defines their philosophical backgrounds through close and sustain

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Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. Grice traces Kingston's development as a writer and cultural activist to both ethnic and feminist discourses. -- .

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Maxine Hong Kingston's first book, Woman Warrior gained instant popularity and critical success, winning top national literary awards as well as a place on the best seller list.

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One of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century, Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for Both Your Houses (1933), and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Winterset (1935) and High Tor (1936).

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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.