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This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent.

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Suitable for courses in medieval literature, this work offers a comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the middle ages, focusing particularly on Middle English and the period from 1300-1500. It includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics.

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A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.

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Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality.

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Examines the theory and practice of the historical novel in 20th century German and Austrian literature. This volume aims to work against the conventional view of the historical novel as an antiquated and escapist genre, remote from contemporary problems. It seeks to show that the historical novel is always a response to contemporary history.

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Gives a comprehensive introduction to British Modernism as a literary movement. Suitable for literature students, this title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; and an overview of major critical approaches, case studies in reading primary and secondary texts.

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Gives an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British Modernism as a literary movement. This resource offers literature students with information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; and guides to key critics.

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Focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the myth.

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The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the ways in which myths about farmed animals' lives are perpetuated in children's materials. Drawing on a diverse range of fields of inquiry, this book investigates the use of five recurring thematic devices in about eighty books for young children published during the past five decades.

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The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.

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This bibliography is a starting point for those interested in researching the American Indian in literature or American Indian literature. Designed to augment other major bibliographies, it classifies all relevant bibliographies and critical works and supplies listings not cited by them.

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A guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, chronicling and summarizing her writings, presenting information about her national and global impact - and the response to it - and providing a comprehensive bibliography. This edition contains summaries of books and articles about Rand.

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Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the New Woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the New Woman, Ledger's book studies the 'Woman question' at the fin de sicle.

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"Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture"--

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Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.

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