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Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book studies his work and articulates where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. It provides a comprehensive analysis of Franzen's novels, revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by his novels' structure.

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Focusing on Joyce as an Irish and European writer, best understood in the context of other times and writers, including Virginia Woolf, this comparative study is organised in four parts: Joyce and History, Joyce and Language, Joyce and the City, and Joyce and the Contemporary World.

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Presents a comparative study, which encourages a way of thinking about Joyce not as an isolated figure but, as someone who is understood in the company of others. This work places Joyce and his time in dialogue with other figures or different historical periods or languages other than English.

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Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows how Joyce created in his own fiction a Dantean allegory of art. Dr. Reynolds argues that Joyce read Dante as a poet rather than as a Catholic; that Joyce was interested in Dante's criticism of society and, above all, in his great power

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Enables the new reader of "Ulysses" to understand, analyse and appreciate the most famous, and famously 'difficult', novel of the twentieth century. This guide shows how Joyce reacted to the historical and cultural context in which he was situated. It is suitable for undergraduate students.

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Enables the new reader of "Ulysses" to understand, analyse and appreciate the most famous, and famously 'difficult', novel of the twentieth century. This guide shows how Joyce reacted to the historical and cultural context in which he was situated. It is suitable for undergraduate students.

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Celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of James Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. This book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works - "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", and "Ulysses".

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Celebrates the daring, humor and playfulness of James Joyce's complex work while engaging with and elucidating the most demanding aspects of his writing. This book explores in detail the motifs and radical innovations of style and technique that characterize his major works - "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", and "Ulysses".

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Several novels of the 19th century treat adulterous relationships; in doing so, they consider the attitude toward adultery in particular societies. Using the adulteress as an archetypal figure of the realist tradition, this work discusses six novels of adultery from around the world.

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This brilliant study of Verne's three cycles (1850-62, 1862-86, 1886-1916) analyzes the works from a biographical, sociohistorical, ideological, and narratological point of view.

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Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. This title provides a wide range of critical perspectives on Barnes' work from early bestselling novels "Flaubert's Parrot" to "Arthur and George".

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Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. This title provides a wide range of critical perspectives on Barnes' work from early bestselling novels "Flaubert's Parrot" to "Arthur and George".

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Outlining the history of science fiction literature from the ancients to the present, the author parallels the changes in its scope and vision with the progress of scientific research. The focus is on the genre of science fiction as a reflection of scientific and philosophical paradigms.

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An overview of German and Holocaust literature, critical theory and German studies.

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The first book to look at the impact of translators and translation on how we read Kafka's work.

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Kafka's Creatures: Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Franz Kafka's use of non-human creatures in his writings. It is written from a variety of interpretive perspectives and highlights diverse ways of understanding how Kafka's use of these creatures illuminate his work in general.

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Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. This guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's text and to realize what the uses of such perplexity might be.

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Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. This guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's texts.

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From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinsons fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's uvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, one play and one collection of stories to date.

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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.