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This is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.

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Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. This work in the Barthes canon offers a discussion of the language of literary criticism.

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This work uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature.

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Uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature. This study also examines the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common demoninator which links these writers.

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Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. This title catches the excitement of this period of revolutionary art, reveals the interactions between writers and painters, and shows in particular the specific and general impact this world had on Williams' early writings.

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Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women is the first contribution to literary food study to examine Middle Eastern women's writing. Using twenty-first century transnational theory, the volume establishes books with recipes as tools of culinary diplomacy.

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"Provides a historical and theoretical account of how the point of view of minorities has affected and complicated the dominant representation of reality in Latin America"--

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"Provides a historical and theoretical account of how the point of view of minorities has affected and complicated the dominant representation of reality in Latin America"--

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Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return combines immigration and identity theories to re-examine the notion of migration in Arabic literature. The study discusses Arabic narratives from the 1100s to 2010, some of which have never been translated in English.

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Beginning with the assumption that social practices form the basis of collective identity, this book examines the way art and literature shape and reflect collective mindsets through an analysis of national contexts.

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Examines Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture -- .

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This book challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. These authors pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture.

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This text traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the 20th century. It works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing.

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This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Cultures of the Sublime recovers a broad context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime, offering a selection of texts from a wide range of areas which both generate and investigate sublime effects.

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This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Cultures of the Sublime recovers a broad context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime, offering a selection of texts from a wide range of areas which both generate and investigate sublime effects.

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How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's Which novels do American soldiers read When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature And is there any link between asthma and literary genius This title contemplates the import of questions such as these, and attempts a few answers in a series of essays.

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A study of D H Lawrence's presentation of narrative viewpoint, resolving the controversies in narratology and Lawrence criticism. It focuses mainly on Lawrence's third novel, "Sons and Lovers", occupying a crucial position in his oeuvre and judged by critics to be his first mature piece.

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