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Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cultural criticism, the study of cultural memory, as well as on radical models of time and history, this book explores the varied, creative, and often critically challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in contemporary prose, drama and poetry. -- .

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In a series of closely related essays, Professor Lindenberger analyzes the language, style, imagery, and organization of Wordsworth's "Prelude." In precise detail and with richly relevant use of critical and historical materials, he demonstrates the variety and complexity of "The Prelude" leading the reader into a deepened understanding of one of t

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Waltzing Matilda is the one song that belongs to all Australians. It has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895. This book tells the story and evolution of Australia's favourite song up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer the riddles within the song, and unpick its inherent contradictions.

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"Tells the story of the origins and growth of Surrealist literature - primarily through poetry written in French, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese - throughout the western hemisphere, examining its popularity, influence, and variety"--

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The first extensive analysis of the works of Dave Eggers. >

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Offers an analysis of the works of Dave Eggers, an author who has grown from a small-time media upstart into one of the most influential author-publishers of the twenty-first century. This book charts Eggers' rise to fame in detail, offering analysis of the circumstances of his success and their effects on the production of his literary oeuvre.

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Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .

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This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibets oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.

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This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibets oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.

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"The first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography that demonstrates how their alternative vision of the everyday extends, and often complicates, that of their male contemporaries as well as contemporary everyday life theory"--

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This literary study of Oriana Fallaci examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. It portrays Fallaci as a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, and focuses on her engagement as a writer with political and social issues.

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This literary study of Oriana Fallaci examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. It portrays Fallaci as a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, and focuses on her engagement as a writer with political and social issues.

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Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity.

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In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality.

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In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan into the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated. -- .

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An analysis of the distinctive political writings of George Orwell. It focuses on his concept of political power and its relevance. By looking at Orwell as a political thinker, it derives a 'political message' from his works that may qualify as contributions to the liberal political thought.