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Notions of Otherness is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.

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Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century. -- .

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A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self. Through these interviews the book explores and introduces a range of key themes in contemporary literature, raising questions about genre, history, postmodernism, celebrity culture and form.

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Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert's art in relation to his tragic themes. A voiding undue emphasis on biography, Professor Brombert focuses on the haunting motifs of the novels and analyzes the feature

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

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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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Texts include selections from "Sketchbook 1946-1949," "I'm Not Stiller," and "Homo Faber: A Report," The plays includes selections from "Now They are Singing Again," "Don Juan," and "Andorra," The essays and speeches include "Emigrants," "Foreignization I," and "Switzerland as Heimat,".

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Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, the author argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'.

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Offers discussion of themes such as spatiality, temporality and sovereignty in Latin literature, drawing upon key conteporary critical theorists. This title deals with the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time.

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With emphasis on award-winning fiction, this companion guide to Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998, features more than 500 novels published between 1990 and 2001.

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This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and socially mindful human household members.

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Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize ones life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to challenge hegemonic power by keeping memory in question and receptive to alternative futures to come.

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This book provides a detailed study of the relationship between science fiction and other genres. The book next examines those science fiction writers who have successfully written in other literary forms, as well as authors active in other genres who have turned to science fiction to treat particular themes.

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This book centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the uglification of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these works destroy the regimentation of the ideal body.

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This book takes four stories by Vladimir Odoevsky, the Russian-Romantic author, to illustrate 'pathways' in modern fiction, developed further by subsequent writers. Featured here are: the artistic story, the rise of science fiction, aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel. -- .

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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa.

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"This volume analyzes tributaries of James Baldwin's political and social critique, revalorizing his use of visual forms as well as scrutinizing the connections between his literary journalism and his other works"--

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Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners.