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Cormac McCarthy's significance in the field of contemporary American fiction is enormous. Offering critical perspectives on three McCarthy's novels - "All the Pretty Horses", "No Country for Old Men", and "The Road", this title provides an introduction to the different interpretations of his work.

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The first comprehensive critical study of hard science fiction, this book reveals how the term hard science fiction originated, and how arguments about its range and nature have unfolded.

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Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory -- .

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Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory

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Grimmelshausen's enduring fame as Germany's greatest satirical novelist has rested mainly on The Adventerous Simplicissimus, the first of four novels comprising the Simplician cycle. Less well known, though of equal interest for their penetrating and satiric insight into seventeenth-century beliefs and superstitions, are the two Simplician tales no

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The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most popular playwrights of their day but also literary figures highly esteemed by the great critics of the age, Jonson and Dryden. Concentrating on the passions of the royalty and high nobility in a courtly atmosphere, their dramas are now us

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This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers and audiences judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.

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A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Nol Coward's plays

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The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction. -- .

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The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction. -- .

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Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .

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Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction

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Using a varied blend of approaches, the author places the creative writer and artist within a modern history of arguments over questions of creativity, and discusses creativity as a social-cultural practice, presenting it as an historical, political and inevitably compromised practice which must always be in dispute.

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Offers a collection of essays that explores the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. This title focuses beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie and discusses staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.

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The first book to treat crime fiction in its full global, intercultural, and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature.

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The first book to treat crime fiction in its full global, intercultural, and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature.