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A comprehensive study of the ketos - the most prominent sea monster of Greco-Roman culture.

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In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. Byatt's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

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This title presents a guide to A.S. Byatt's novel, "Possession". It features a biography of the author and also includes a full-length analysis of the novel, reviews of the novel and discussion questions.

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This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. -- .

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This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. -- .

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Anthony Burgess's 'hybrid' novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard's new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess's engagement with his Italian and English sources. -- .

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The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taa and frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality.

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Provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available

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'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with history, philosophy, religion, art and music. -- .

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This title presents a broad overview of the rhetoric throughout the works of the Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe. It seeks to demonstrate how he uses the novel genre for educative and persuasive purposes, showing how his society has responded to the African colonial encounter and its aftermath.

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Chinua Achebe's remarkable novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958) is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world's most influential literary masterpieces. This guide to the text sets "Things Fall Apart" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure.

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Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and transitional society. By this interpretation he introduces a new and imaginative approach to the writer and his work, and Howells emerges as one of the

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Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition--among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and Faulkner--and suggests that the tradition of traged

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Siobhan Keenan's comprehensive survey of the key acting companies of the early modern period offers undergraduates and scholars a new perspective on how their demands effected the sort of plays being written and the multiple factors which fostered and formed the theatre ofrenaissance England.