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The author looks beyond formal criticism to explore how black writers (and by implication all writers) present their views about the world, its society, and our relation to them. Writers included range from Charles W. Chesnutt to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.

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"Analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature in Spanish America"--

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"Analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature in Spanish America"--

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How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

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How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

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This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. -- .

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Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. -- .

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Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. -- .

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This book shows that Cervantes deliberately employed polyphonic structure in Don Quixote, a mode with more sophisticated expressive possibilities that monophonic narration could not offer. It suggests that Don Quixote can be treated as a semi-polyphonic hybrid novel that successfully amalgamates two narrative modes, monophonic and polyphonic.

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Follows "The Pilgrim's Progress" as it circulates through multiple contexts - and into some 200 languages - focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This book accounts for how "The Pilgrim's Progress" traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, and was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled.

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Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.

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Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.

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This edited collection reimagines the coming-of-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives at the margins of comics, videogames, and experimental novels.

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A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia, and Don DeLillos call to American authors that they compose a new so-called Great American Novel pluriverse in the wake of 9/11.

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More than 700 `utopian novels are published in Russia every year.

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Presents an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in post-war Britain. This title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical approaches; case studies in reading primary and secondary texts; and a glossary of critical terms.

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Presents an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in post-war Britain. This title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical approaches; case studies in reading primary and secondary texts; and a glossary of critical terms.

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