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Analyses the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life. This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers.

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"The scope of the work is broad, with European and Latin American influences well represented. Recommended for collections that emphasize fiction of the past two decades." Library Journal

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In defining postmodernism, this book compares and contrasts it with modernism by placing it in its historical context. Gregson discusses Jean-Franois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard - and demonstrates how their theories illuminate the work of postmodern novelists including Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie.

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Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .

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The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric explores this relationship in detail. Originally published in

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Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.

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"Originally published as Preasens: Poetik eines Tempus, 2012 Diaphanes, Zurich" -- Verso title page.

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"Originally published as Preasens: Poetik eines Tempus, 2012 Diaphanes, Zurich" -- Verso title page.

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This introduction to Primo Levi and his writing draws attention to the literary worth of Levi's output, not just the Holocaust testimonies for which he is primarily known. The text situates his works in the context of Italian culture and society from the 1920s to the 1980s.

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This introduction to Primo Levi and his writing draws attention to the literary worth of Levi's output, not just the Holocaust testimonies for which he is primarily known. The text situates his works in the context of Italian culture and society from the 1920s to the 1980s.

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"A critical study of key texts and moments from the last 100 years of Latin American prison literature"--

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The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace. The Prometheus and Faust traditions met in literature and art soon after the emergence of the historical Faustus.

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Author Paul Poplawski seeks to define Lawrence's concept of creativity and explores its use as a central structuring principle of his ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic thought. Viewed in relation to his basic religious beliefs, the concept of creativity provides us with an integrated perspective on his art.

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Using an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, this book examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes.

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Using an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, this book examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes.

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