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"The Gothic Vision" examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late 18th century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing.

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This reference provides an introduction to Gothic literature and its abundant criticism and summarizes contemporary developments and critical opinion in Gothic studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King.

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Focuses on Graham Greene's use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. This title explores the major issues of Catholic faith and doubt, particularly in relation to his portrayal of secular love and physical desire.

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A comprehensive reconsideration of Graham Greene's use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. It focuses both on his best known novels and his less familiar works, including his short stories, plays, poetry, film scripts and reviewing, journalism and personal correspondence.

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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift. Detailed analysis of his work provides an informative, lucid and accessible insight into the writing of one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors. -- .

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This is an excellent guide to Graham Swifts Booker-winning novel, now a feature film starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youre studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, youll find this guide informative and helpful.

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Argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures. While giving some attention to this subgenre, this book shifts the focus to the ways in which visual form manifests itself in 'traditional' verse, examining poems by Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, Olson, T E Hulme, and Auden.

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Richard Bradford argues that many traditional poets treat words as visual artefacts and that some poems demand to be interpreted like pictures.

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The most comprehensive work of its kind, Great Themes of Science Fiction looks at the most important elements of the genre and shows how each has evolved over time.

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A study of the politics and philosophy of writers contributing to the Little Magazine, "The New Age" during 1907 and 1922. It demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon, but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. It examines a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views.

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"Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War"--

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Gives students and general readers an overview of contemporary women mystery writers. It provides alphabetically arranged entries, with each entry including a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. It also contains appendices of award winners and a selected, general bibliography.

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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Stamatia Dova offers innovative hermeneutic approaches to heroic character and a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis.

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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Stamatia Dova offers innovative hermeneutic approaches to heroic character and a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis.

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