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This book explores the foreign element in English culture and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid 20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman.

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The Forest in Medieval German Literature analyzes the topic of the "forest" through some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, approaching them through modern ecocritical issues that are paired with premodern perspectives.

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The Forest in Medieval German Literature analyzes the topic of the forest through some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, approaching them through modern ecocritical issues that are paired with premodern perspectives.

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As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these women writers have been marginalized and offers reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works.

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As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these women writers have been marginalized and offers reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works.

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In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of life, this form of literature emerged long after the other genres and, until recently, seemed hardly worthy of critical attention. Here B. P. Reardon a

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A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece -- .

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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, e

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Companion to: The French book trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment / by Mark Curran.

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The first real reviewing of African-American literature in France began in 1844, when audiences welcomed the romantic dramas of Victor Sejour.

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The first critical study of the key role that modern French literature played in the formation and development of the oeuvres of the major American Beat writers in the mid-20th century.

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The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France focuses on assessments of the fall of France in June 1940 and its impact on Frances historical narrative, placing Simone Weil's writing of 1938 to 1943 within this continuum.

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Within this volume, expert contributors address the English response to the French Revolution, with special attention to the works of Edmund Burke, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Thomas Carlyle.

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This work examines how the dramatic works of the 1990s have shaped the New British Theatre movement. The playwrights discussed include Billy Roche, Sebastian Barry, Conor MacPherson, David Harrower, Jonathan Harvey, Philip Ridley, Richard Cameron, Naomi Wallace and Sarah Kane.

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Dominic Dromgoole, a key figure in new British drama, witnessed the explosion of new writing that took place at the end of the millennium. In a series of profiles of over 50 British playwrights this title looks at new plays and theatres which have changed the shape of contemporary British drama.

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The book offers an interdisciplinary approach to a subject that has largely been the province of religious studies and philosophy. Tackling the function of evil across social contexts rather than seeking a definition of evil, this collection explores the use of the term "evil" in multiple eras, genres, and disciplines.

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The book offers an interdisciplinary approach to a subject that has largely been the province of religious studies and philosophy. Tackling the function of evil across social contexts rather than seeking a definition of evil, this collection explores the use of the term "evil" in multiple eras, genres, and disciplines.

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The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines the function of death in over thirty of Kings works to parse out the ways the Master of Horror plays with the idea of death and approaches it from multiple angles.