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This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of- consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of nineteenth-and twentieth-century fiction by writers including Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.

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Transplantation is a boundary practice unsettling distinctions between self and other, life and death. This book identifies a Gothic mode in representations of the practice in literature, film and science from the nineteenth century to the present, considering hybrid bodies and precarious lives under neoliberal late capitalism. -- .

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Argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others -- .

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Argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others -- .

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This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J. G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction.

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This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

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This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

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'Walkabout' was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates 'Walkabout magazine's pivotal role in Australian cultural history.

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If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative expectations, to what extent can that history of the novel be anticipated in non-Western contexts In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cult

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In this companion volume to "Home Before Dark", Susan Cheever once again gives an insider's glimpse into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricity are only paralleled by their genius and successes.

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This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdos' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siecle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues associated with late-romantic thought. -- .

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.

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Trollope is usually seen as a faithful mirror of Victorian England. This text examines the conundrum of how a great novelist could both accept the conventional values of the time and yet be able to see and sympathise with the impossible situations that Victorian women often found themselves.

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This study offers a perspective in interpreting the cultural politics of Cuba's complex history through an exploration of the country's literature.

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Informed by the work of Jacques Derrida, this literary and theoretical study tackles modernism and fascism in the case of the influential novelist Knut Hamsun.

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Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920, and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion. This title analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer, Knut Hamsun.

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Examines the state of autobiography in the postmodern world, demonstrating how writers use the experience of fragmentation to forge new kinds of collaborative identities.

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Trump Fiction examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture before and during his presidency.

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