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What is Nigel Farage's favourite novel Why do Brexiteers love Sherlock Holmes Is Philip Larkin the best Brexit poet ever Through the politically relevant side-road of English literature, John Sutherland quarries the great literary minds of English history to assemble the ultimate reading list for Brexiteers.

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Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

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This authoritative bibliography of Canadas premier literary prize, the Governor Generals Literary Awards, offers a comprehensive and in-depth look at the Awards and its celebrated authors.

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The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of several post-World War II writers can be best understood through regional history and identity.

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Describes the central thesis of author's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace.

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Early Arab writers such as Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri used subversion, wit and sarcasm to critique social and political aspects of their world by mixing the real with the imaginary, the ordinary with the extraordinary, and the natural with the supernatural. This work features the Arabic text of al-Adab al-'Aja'ibi with commentary by the author.

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Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, this book presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation.

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Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer.

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Presents a history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. This book argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it.

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Reprint. Originally published: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, A 2013.

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David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.

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David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.

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A collection of essays dealing with those monstrous and those marvellous known to us from literature, art, film and politics.

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In this collection of essays, which considers the relationship between the novel and spirituality in the cultural setting of the present day, eight novelists draw upon their own experience of authorship.

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A sequel to "The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse (Saqi)", this book investigates a number of crucial questions related to the genre's development such as: Why did the Arabic short story take certain trajectories and what determined its path Can the study of this genre provide us with wider insights into the culture as a whole

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Jared Lobdell argues that fantasy is the natural, if not inevitable direction of fiction writing. Surveying and criticizing authors who influenced J.R.R. Tolkien' and presenting contemporary authors like Stephen King, and Ursula Le Guin, Professor Lobdell identifies a pattern in the evolution of fiction.

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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.