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This study examines the recurring motifs in Pat Conroy's fiction and his writing talent. Each novel is analysed for plot structure, thematic elements, characterisation and development. A biographical chapter draws connections between Conroy's life and the autobiographical nature of his fiction.

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Examines the representation of gender relations in Pirandello's writing, and assesses his status as an avant garde author. This book argues that while he can certainly be described as avant garde on the level of dramatic form, he cannot be said to innovate at the more covert level of gender relations.

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"Closer", emerges as one of the successful plays of 1990s, and one with a continuing afterlife through the academy award nominated film adaptation in 2004. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an overview of the background and context; analysis of the play's structure, style, characters and more.

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Provides an introduction to the play, "Closer", giving students an overview of the background and context. This book offers an analysis of the play's structure, style, characters, analysis of production issues and choices, and an overview of the performance history.

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This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.

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This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.

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The defintive account of the early life of the revered author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels including Master and Commander.

Nikolai Tolstoy was O'Brian's stepson and his acquaintanceship with him lasted forty-five years during most of O'Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy, Nikolai's mother.

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This book is an intertextual study of Paul Austers The New York Trilogy focusing on the influence of the main authors of the American Renaissance and the modern European tradition, represented by Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot.

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This book is an intertextual study of Paul Austers The New York Trilogy focusing on the influence of the main authors of the American Renaissance and the modern European tradition, represented by Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot.

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Many American writers visited Morocco. Paul Bowles ended up living there for fifty-two years. This book looks at how Bowless preoccupation with Moroccan customs, specifically meditations and a state of being in-between permeated his work.

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Sartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist, politically a Communist, professionally a writer, endowed--Sartre conceded--with a sharper mind and greater literary ability than his own, Nizan diagnosed the ills of French society in the 1930's. His writings, vilified by the Party he le

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Questioning the view that the work is not representative of the poet's mature accomplishment, Suzanne Nash argues that the revisionary process involved in its creation led Valery to reflect on problems fundamental to poetic production and thus provided inspiration for all his later poetry. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Librar

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Combines an introduction to Pausanias with fresh perspectives. This book considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context.

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The book is about the pedagogic rapport in the post-1980s U.S. when the professor-student relationship gained unprecedented attention. Using eleven American novels, Aristi Trendel examines the complexity, richness, and exceptional nature of the pedagogic encounter and calls for a new genre, the Master-Disciple novel.

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Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and A

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This book is a practical example of modern journalism in Persian and includes last 176 days of author's works in Voice of America/ Persian service.

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The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning. This book traces the ways that American novelists ranging from Melville, and Faulkner to Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy - have drawn on the resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own styles and visions of reality.

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Noted for her contradictory words and actions, Penelope has been a problematic character for critics of the Odyssey, many of whom turn to psychological explanations to account for her behavior. In a fresh approach to the problem, Marylin Katz links Penelope closely with the strategies that govern the overall design of the narrative. By examining it