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Theorising the Contemporary Zombie marks a new and exciting study into why zombies are popular today and what lessons can be learned from the undead.

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Challenging both the uncritical celebration of abstract multiculturalism and its simpleminded vilification, Lee roots Urban Triage in specific instances of multiracial contact and deeply informed readings of works that have been canonized within ethnic studies and of those that either remain misunderstood or were.

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Uwe Timm belongs to the generation of writers whose early careers were shaped by personal experience of the student movement in the Federal Republic of the late 1960s. Heiber Sommer, Timm's first novel, deals directly with such individual experience of the protests and with a sense of disillusionment which followed.

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Uwe Timm is one of the influential writers in contemporary German literature. His work addresses the dominant cultural themes in contemporary Germany, including memory, biography and Vergangenheitsbewaltigung. This book looks at his work.

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An introduction to the links between Welsh literature and the Greek and Roman classics - from the interaction between the literatures of the classical and Welsh worlds as the Welsh language emerged, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance humanism, to the classical inheritance of the 20th century.

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This text is devoted to the study of the English-language writing of Wales. It is the forum forcritical discussion of the whole chronological range of Welsh writing in English.

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Examines how Wilkie Collins' interest in medical matters developed through his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.

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Explains why fantasy in the Harry Potter and Dresden Files novels cannot adhere strictly to scientific laws, and when magic might make scientific sense in the muggle world. This title discusses exoplanets and how the search for alien life has shifted from radio communications to space-based telescopes.

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This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Analysing works by lesser known authors within a historical context, the collection offers a fresh perspective on women writers and their contributions to Gothic literature.

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This book discusses the representation of women's memories of the dictatorship in the recent work of seven Chilean novelists.

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Alison Hoddinott writes about the history of crime fiction set in Oxford from the early decades of the 20th century to the present. Her emphasis is on novels written by women and the ways in which their fiction deals with both the mystery and its solution and with the situation of women within the university and in the wider community.

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Analyses the phenomenon of literary disenchantment after the First World War -- .

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Thema'r llyfr hwn yw sut mae nofelwyr benywaidd Cymraeg wedi son am rai o'u profiadau corfforol mwyaf personol a dwys (yn bennaf beichiogrwydd a'r mislif) a sut mae'r drafodaeth honno wedi newid dros amser.

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This collection examines young adult Gothic fiction to demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic in texts for young people signals anxieties about, and hopes for, young people in the twenty-first century.

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It is in "Bleak House" that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. The essays collected in this "New Casebook" embody some of the approaches to Dickens, using deconstructive, feminist, Marxist and post-structuralist methods.

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Nicolas Tredell explores the critical material generated by these two works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades.

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Albert Wendt is by far the most prolific and most influential contemporary Pacific Island writer. He has written four books of poetry, three collections of short stories, five novels and has edited three anthologies of Pacific writing. This is the first extended study of this writer.

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A selection of Granta editor John Freeman's very best conversations with the very best novelists of our time, including some revised and unpublished pieces. How To Read A Novelist is a companion for anyone who loves reading; an invaluable reference for writers; and a slap in the face to those who would argue that the novel is dead.