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This book surveys the hyperlocal in the works of authors such as Jane Austen, John Keats, and Charles Dickens. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.

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Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry.

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The chapters in this volume explore the various strategies used by early modern writers to represent masculinity.

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A monograph investigating the way in which detective fiction reflects wider issues in society.

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Examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. This monograph focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder.

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An analysis of a range of American literature reflecting the experience of European and non-western immigrant groups. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and adverse cultures that are reflected in the literature.

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American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. This title revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features.

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Investigates how the notion of incarnation has been employed in phenomenology and how this has influenced literary criticism. This book examines the interest that Joyce and Proust share in the concept of incarnation.

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The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingway's Fiction is an essential companion to those who study Hemingway. The Europe that Hemingway experienced and recorded in his writing is arguably one of the most important elements in his fiction. This study will provide insight into the European settings of some of Hemingway's most iconic fiction.

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The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingways Fiction is an essential companion to those who study Hemingway. The Europe that Hemingway experienced and recorded in his writing is one of the most important elements in his fiction. This study will provide insight into the European settings of some of Hemingways most iconic fiction

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

A collection of research by leading scholars on the international reception of Beckett.

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Samuel Beckett's popularity has rocketed around the world and he is recognised as one of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century. This book brings together essays from leading critics on Beckett's international critical reception.

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Brings together a wide range of international perspectives on TS Eliot, an influential twentieth-century author, who as poet, critic, and editor did much to shape modernist poetics, not only in Europe and North America, but also world-wide.

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By means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space.

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The first book in the humanities and social sciences to offer an extensive conceptual definition of monolingualism, based on literary, applied-linguistic, technological, and translational examples.

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The first book in the humanities and social sciences to offer an extensive conceptual definition of monolingualism, based on literary, applied-linguistic, technological, and translational examples.