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Written in a spare and lyrical language, Midwinter is a play about now, about love, self and a world made from conflict. Midwinter premiered as part of the RSC New Work Festival at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 2004.

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Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1980s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Howard Barker, Jim Cartwright, Sarah Daniels and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

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Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss.

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A socio-cultural analysis of the relationship between modernism and science fiction, from the 1870s to the 1970s, with examples drawn from literature and other media in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The book challenges how high and low culture has been mapped in the twentieth century.

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An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy

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Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers, some famous, some less well known, invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.

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Weird fiction wouldn t exist without the women who created it. Meet the female authors who defied convention to craft some of literature s strangest tales. And find out why their own stories are equally intriguing.

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In Lives of the Intellectuals one of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O'Hara.

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A scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his 'nonsenses' by one of our most cherished historians - without losing any sense of fun.

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The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century.

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For almost 50 years (until his death in 1963) Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the variety of his talents. In these fields - theatre, cinema, art, ballet and literature - Cocteau made many life-long friends. Portraits of these friends and intimates make up this volume.

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Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions

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The life story of Isabel Allende one of the world's favourite writers is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.

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Since the beginning of time, trees have held a special place in our collective consciousness. Moyra Caldecott gathers here a collection of myths celebrating the rich symbolism of trees, from African, European, Native American, Russian, Indian, Arabian, and other traditions--bringing to life a time when trees and forests were thought be be inhabited by spirits and divine beings.

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Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques.

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Previous edition: The essential Basho, 1999.

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"Weaving together the biographies of two poets separated by some eight-hundred years, Robert Richardson brings to life one of the most famous-- and ancient works of poetry in all existence"--Front jacket flap.

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Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging examination of the interactions between the history of the book and digital humanities.

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A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.

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The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.