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By: Professor or Dr. Christopher Weinberger

ISBN: 9798765105399
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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"Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel in the work of some of Japan's most famous and influential modern writers, Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke"--


(Hardback)

By: Joshua J. Bowman

ISBN: 9781498559027
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreaus political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreaus relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.


(Hardback)

By: Lindy Stiebel

ISBN: 9780313318030
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of land and landscape in the African romances of H. Rider Haggard. It argues that Haggard created a formulaic, ideological geography which provided a canvas onto which he projected his desires and fears, both personal and political, as well as those of his age.


(Hardback)

By: Debra Gettelman

ISBN: 9780691260419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Dr. Glyn Morgan

ISBN: 9781501373152
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Kathleen Lant

ISBN: 9780313302329
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Stephen King has been hailed as a writer of the late 20th century Everyman, yet his representations of women remain debatable. These essays not only explore his portrayal of female characters, they illuminate Stephen King's own psychology and that of our culture's fears, anxieties, and feminine obsessions.


(Hardback)

By: Richard Ritter

ISBN: 9780719090332
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.


(Hardback)

By: John Kucich

ISBN: 9780691127125
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism.


(Hardback)

By: L. Lamar Nisly

ISBN: 9780313320606
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book studies how Jewish and Catholic practices of giving structure to religious mystery are embodied in the works of Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, Cynthia Ozick, and Flannery O'Connor.

The volume links Malamud with Percy and Ozick with O'Connor because these Jewish and Catholic authors depict religious mystery in similar ways.


(Paperback)

By: Henry Gates

ISBN: 9780465027088
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Basic Books
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Top African-American Studies scholars examine the history and reception of The Bondwoman's Narrative, the slave narrative that has changed how we view antebellum literature.


(Paperback)

By: Miles Leeson

ISBN: 9781526148100
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.


(Hardback)

By: Miles Leeson

ISBN: 9781526122162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.


(Hardback)

By: Jeffrey Moxham

ISBN: 9780313322839
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Classic 19th-century British novels that give full expression to complex ethical problems necessarily project the claims of conflicting or interfering values and thus complicate the strategies for resolving the dilemmas they dramatize.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Abigail Rine

ISBN: 9781474222846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Dr Miles Leeson

ISBN: 9781441110220
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A reassessment of Murdoch's fictional work regarding her links with her own philosophy and the philosophy of Plato, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Miles Leeson

ISBN: 9780826443700
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A reassessment of Iris Murdoch's fictional work regarding the links with her own philosophy and the philosophy of Plato, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it makes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning.


(Paperback)

By: Kersti Tarien Powell

ISBN: 9780826415974
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Includes a broad definition of the genre and its essential elements, a timeline, detailed readings of the most widely studied texts, major themes, and a summary of the most important critism and a reading list.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Susan Cahill

ISBN: 9780567533821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An examination of work by Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne raising questions about gender, bodies and history in Contemporary Irish fiction.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Susan Cahill

ISBN: 9781441152022
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An examination of work by Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne raising questions about gender, bodies and history in Contemporary Irish fiction. It pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, and between generations.


(Hardback)

By: Paul Fagan

ISBN: 9781350177369
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Paul Fagan

ISBN: 9781350267282
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Tom Herron

ISBN: 9781441168054
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. This study considers how Irish writers have regarded, reported and represented London in their fiction, drama and poetry. It features experts on particular Irish writers who reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Herron

ISBN: 9781441172488
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. This study considers how Irish writers have regarded, reported and represented London in their fiction, drama and poetry. It includes essays on key figures that challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing.


(Paperback)

By: Aaron Kelly

ISBN: 9780719066511
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work -- .

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