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This study of Goronwy Rees (1909-79) sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life. The author also discusses Rees' complex relationship with Wales and how, although an unwavering advocate of home rule, he was perceived in his native country as being anti-Welsh.

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The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker surveys the rise of the short tale of terror and horror at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family -- .

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Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either connected to Gothic fictions or because they generate new Gothic storytelling experiences. This book explores the socio-political significance of Gothic tourism in England.

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Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature.

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Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing pressing questions of national identity and subjecthood, and emphasising the ethical value of listening to unsettling or distressing voices.

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The first English translation of one of Japan's most important haiku poets.

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Traces the uses of "Hamlet" in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. This title identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic "Hamlet".

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Hans-Ulrich Treichel has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since the publication of his first novel "Der Verlorene" in 1998. This volume follows the series pattern, aiming to provide an introduction to Hans-Ulrich Treichel and to offer a critical approach to his work.

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Hans-Ulrich Treichel has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since the publication of his first novel "Der Verlorene" in 1998. This volume follows the series pattern, aiming to provide an introduction to Hans-Ulrich Treichel and to offer a critical approach to his work.

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Strips the veneer of the tough guy in modern American culture. The author offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces the changes in its cultural conception.

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Strips the veneer of the tough guy in modern American culture. The author offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces the changes in its cultural conception.

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A bracing phillippic which proposes that contemporary literature is at a dead end. With swinging critiques of the work of, among others, Sven Birkets, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth and Jim Crace.

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Novelist Dale Peck attacks the contemporary canon of fiction for writing bad prose without content. In one savage review after another, Peck contends that current contemporary fiction is heir to a bankrupt lineage that began with Joyce, was continued by Faulkner, Nabokov, and led to the current state.

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Matthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history. -- .

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A volume of plays of the world-renowned author, Heiner Mller.

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The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry Jamess late works.