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Uses twentieth-century fiction to demonstrate that the modern state was founded primarily on a Christian supersessionist theology rather than a secular ideology.

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This reference provides English-speaking readers with a current and comprehensive guide to his life and works.

Hundreds of A-Z entries cover topics related to his life, works, and theatrical career, including: Plays;

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"Absorbing . . . Will appeal to all who wish to learn more about the conception of Frankenstein and its enigmatic author." -Publishers Weekly

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"A literary history of our attempts to depict reality through language"--

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The book shows how three of Russia's most important twentieth century poets used autobiographical prose to defend poetry and the poet in an era when poetry was under attack. It juxtaposes these autobiographies with each other and with the culturo-political events that followed Russia's 1917 October Revolution in a way that has never previously been attempted.

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Alick West, one of the leading literary critics of the Left, begins by contesting Dr. Leavis' well known argument that the traditional culture of the English people was destroyed by the industrial revolution.

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Focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the myth.

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The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the ways in which myths about farmed animals' lives are perpetuated in children's materials. Drawing on a diverse range of fields of inquiry, this book investigates the use of five recurring thematic devices in about eighty books for young children published during the past five decades.

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The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.

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This bibliography is a starting point for those interested in researching the American Indian in literature or American Indian literature. Designed to augment other major bibliographies, it classifies all relevant bibliographies and critical works and supplies listings not cited by them.

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This book retraces the nature of hate as hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today and the hatred of nature as contempt for the natural world and also nature hating in return through Western literature.

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John Andre was captured in September 1780, outside British lines, and was hanged as a spy. The publication date of The Spy (1821--the year of Andre's reinterment) further suggests that this affair is really the impetus for Cooper's examination of the nature of spying.

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Examines how Richard Dawkins' so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. This title offers a genealogy of the "New Atheist Novel": where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future.

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Examines how Richard Dawkins' so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. This title offers a genealogy of the "New Atheist Novel": where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future.

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A guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, chronicling and summarizing her writings, presenting information about her national and global impact - and the response to it - and providing a comprehensive bibliography. This edition contains summaries of books and articles about Rand.

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