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The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant perceptions of Angela Carter. These encompass food, fashion, art, poetry, music, performance and translation, which will be discussed in a number of historical, literary and cultural contexts. -- .

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This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action.

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Frederick Garber studies in a wide range of English, French, German, and American literary texts instances of the struggle for the self's autonomy during the period preceding modernism. In tracing a pattern that changes from the unsettling of bourgeois conditions in Richardson to the collapse of that challenge in the Decadents, he demonstrates that

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This book is a collection of essays on the most important figures associated with the Bakhtin Circle. It offers new biographical material, valuable translations of important Russian texts, a timeline and extensive bibliographical references. -- .

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This anthology provides in a convenient format a good selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.

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Charles Dickens belongs to an exclusive literary club: he was immensely popular when he was alive, and his work has never fallen out of fashion. His books have been in print for over 140 years, and are widely read and admired every day, the world over. This book features facts and photos, stills, and cartoons of this writer.

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A fantastically vast and witty companion to everything you need to know about Jane Austen, presented in a wonderfully fun and entertaining style which will appeal to all readers.

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This volume takes readers into the wonderful world of the Bard. For scholars, theatre lovers, students - everyone - this book wraps nearly 400 years of "Bardology" into a concise package.

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A collection of facts, photographs, posters, quizzes and maps centering on the 56 Sherlock Holmes stories and the four novels in the Holmes canon. The book also comments on Holmes' depiction in film and television and gives details on less well known aspects involving the fictional character and its creator, Conan Doyle.

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A revised and expanded edition of A Ben Jonson Companion, this resource encapsulates the life, times, and work of Jonson. Entries in this volume include all of Jonson's writings, as well as key figures in his life, from contemporary writers to actors who performed in his plays. This new edition contains approximately 30% new entries as well as revisions and updates of existing material.

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This volume investigates Shakespeare as a member of his acting company, dates and casts all the plays presented by them from 1594 to 1614, and explores the effects of the actors on his writing. In doing so, it attempts to provide a better understanding of Shakespeare's life in drama.

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Summaries of all Cleary's novels (including the popular Henry and Ramona books) are accompanied by a description of the author's real-life experiences as reflected in her books and a variety of extension activities (e.g., writing, word games, map activities, dramatic plays, puzzles).

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"Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman in which a perpetrator or complicit protagonist interrogates their own past and questions ideologies responsible for the catastrophic genocide and its legacy"--

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