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In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. Byatt's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

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This title presents a guide to A.S. Byatt's novel, "Possession". It features a biography of the author and also includes a full-length analysis of the novel, reviews of the novel and discussion questions.

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This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. -- .

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This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. -- .

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Anthony Burgess's 'hybrid' novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard's new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess's engagement with his Italian and English sources. -- .

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This title presents a broad overview of the rhetoric throughout the works of the Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe. It seeks to demonstrate how he uses the novel genre for educative and persuasive purposes, showing how his society has responded to the African colonial encounter and its aftermath.

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Chinua Achebe's remarkable novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958) is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world's most influential literary masterpieces. This guide to the text sets "Things Fall Apart" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure.

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Offers an examination of how crime and criminality representations within adapted UK detective dramas impact contemporary definitions of Englishness. This title presents a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this.

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This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies. -- .

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This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies. -- .

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This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt the danger of excessive emotion and association in art, Ruskin's struggle with the sublime but not the picturesque, is, along with the pathetic fallacy, examined. These concepts, too, are considered in light of Ruskin's continuing relig

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This book analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the contemporary Spanish novel. Focusing on the former Spanish colonial territories of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author studies the post-col...

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There is growing popular and scholarly interest in autobiography, along with increasing regard for the achievements of African American writers. Together, the entries provide a detailed portrait of the African American autobiographical tradition from the 18th century to the present.

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The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.

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Demonstrating that Africa has become a popular setting for American novels written since World War II, this text examines how these works use African settings, and reassesses the traditional views of Africa found in Anglo-American literature.

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The first book to articulate the impact of Kafka on Agamben's thought

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The first book to articulate the impact of Kafka on Agamben's thought

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Drawing on literary examples, this book helps readers better understand the full range of issues that older men face-from legacy and loss to health issues and grace. Looking at how older men's lives are documented in American fiction, the author examines works by some of the m...

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The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.