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This work looks at how Christine de Pizan's texts constantly negotiate the hierarchial and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. It places Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity and categories of difference.

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This book debates how Brexit has exacerbated cultural differences between the four nations of Britain in a way that ultimately places the future existence of the United Kingdom in question.

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'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.

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'Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.

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Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. In Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Nicholas Birns tells the story of how novelists, poets and critics responded to this condition.

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Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This work is of interest to students interested in women's studies, gender studies, and cultural studies as well as Welsh, Irish and Celtic studies.

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In the nineteenth century, Cornwall was seen as a foreign nation on Englands doorstep and imagined as a haunted place, full of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and legends. This book explores how Gothic authors drew on this to create a Cornish Gothic tradition.

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The first cultural analysis of the secret literature of Spain's last Muslim communities.

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The first cultural analysis of the secret literature of Spain's last Muslim communities.

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Twenty-five essays and reviews, not available in earlier collections of de Man's work. His subjects include the work of Montaigne, Rousseau, Keats, Goethe, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Sartre, Gide, and Camus.

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This book is the first full-length study of the significant patterns of domestic imagery in late medieval religious writing in English and their broader cultural significance.

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The essays in this collection offer an approach to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. With emphasis on Guattari, both in conjunction with Deleuze and independently, it features an essay by Deleuze and includes a bibliography of Guattari's and Deleuze's publications.

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Over twenty years of work by an important American literary figure: poet, translator, and publisher.

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Antonio Gomez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory - theoretical and methodological principles - to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including "Lazarillo de Tormes"," Don Quixote", Tirso de Molina's "Don Juan" play, and Columbus's "Diary".

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Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture -- .

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Eighteenth-century English fictions are full of stereotypical images of Wales and the Welsh. This volume explores a selection of 18th-century texts that have recieved little critical attention in Wales, even as they record a part of the history of Welsh people.

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This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. -- .

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This book examines John Davies' varied and remarkably rich contribution as biblical translator and pastor, a grammarian and lexicographer, and as a man who strove to promote the standing and dignity of the language and literary heritage of Wales.

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The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies, and stands at the crossroads of its rational literary culture. This text focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, to ask why it exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination.

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Echoes of Valhalla is a unique account of modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages and battles).