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By: Charles Kelley

ISBN: 9780708314555
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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The collection of fourteen essays provides a survey of major writers of fiction from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa.


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By: Angela Smith

ISBN: 9780719065743
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media. -- .


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By: John Harris

ISBN: 9780708316771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This study of Goronwy Rees (1909-79) sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life. The author also discusses Rees' complex relationship with Wales and how, although an unwavering advocate of home rule, he was perceived in his native country as being anti-Welsh.


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By: Agnes Andeweg

ISBN: 9780719088605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family -- .


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By: Alex Bevan

ISBN: 9781786839947
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either connected to Gothic fictions or because they generate new Gothic storytelling experiences. This book explores the socio-political significance of Gothic tourism in England.


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By: Jimmy Packham

ISBN: 9781786837547
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing pressing questions of national identity and subjecthood, and emphasising the ethical value of listening to unsettling or distressing voices.


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By: Christopher Breu

ISBN: 9780816644346
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Strips the veneer of the tough guy in modern American culture. The author offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces the changes in its cultural conception.


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By: Christopher Breu

ISBN: 9780816644339
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Strips the veneer of the tough guy in modern American culture. The author offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces the changes in its cultural conception.


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By: Dale Peck

ISBN: 9781595580276
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: The New Press
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A bracing phillippic which proposes that contemporary literature is at a dead end. With swinging critiques of the work of, among others, Sven Birkets, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth and Jim Crace.


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By: Dale Peck

ISBN: 9781565848740
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: The New Press
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Novelist Dale Peck attacks the contemporary canon of fiction for writing bad prose without content. In one savage review after another, Peck contends that current contemporary fiction is heir to a bankrupt lineage that began with Joyce, was continued by Faulkner, Nabokov, and led to the current state.


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By: David Basker

ISBN: 9780708316658
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Hermann-Peter Piwitt belongs to the generation of West German writers the beginning of whose careers coincided with the student movement of 1968. His career is of particular interest from the perspective of a Europe in which a left-wing alternative to the politics of the centre, has disappeared.


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By: David Basker

ISBN: 9780708316665
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Hermann-Peter Piwitt belongs to the generation of West German writers the beginning of whose careers coincided with the student movement of 1968. His career is of particular interest from the perspective of a Europe in which a left-wing alternative to the politics of the centre, has disappeared.


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By: Charles L. Crow

ISBN: 9780708320440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture.


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By: Charles L. Crow

ISBN: 9780708320082
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture.


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By: Stephen Jay Schwartz

ISBN: 9781945572869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
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By: Michelle Citron

ISBN: 9780816632626
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Agnieszka Kotwasinska

ISBN: 9781837720125
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This volume demonstrates how contemporary American horror by women writers (and those whose output has been identified as womens fiction) is not limited to sparkling vampires, but is in fact a pulsating field bursting with genre-defying works spanning the last three decades.


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By: Liz Sales

ISBN: 9781942084525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Daylight Books
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A collection of satirically written fictional artists statements.


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By: Brian Baker

ISBN: 9780719069048
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London -- .


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By: Pamela Bacarisse

ISBN: 9780708311912
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1993
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: James J. Berg

ISBN: 9781517909093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer"--


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By: James J. Berg

ISBN: 9781517909109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer"--


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By: Judy MacDonald

ISBN: 9781551520643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
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By: Michael Suk-Young Chwe

ISBN: 9780691155760
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this bel

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