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Presents an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in post-war Britain. This title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical approaches; case studies in reading primary and secondary texts; and a glossary of critical terms.

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Presents an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in post-war Britain. This title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical approaches; case studies in reading primary and secondary texts; and a glossary of critical terms.

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Proverbs figure prominently in his work, and this book provides a detailed index to the many proverbs Churchill used in his voluminous writings.

The book begins with an introductory essay that discusses and analyzes the importance of proverbs in Churchill's works.

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The first book to highlight the spiritual element in Borges' work - this work offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing.

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Highlights the spiritual element in Borges' work. This book offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing. It argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges.

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Jean-Francois Gounard's examination of the writings of Richard Wright and James Baldwin achieves a balance between the fiery Wright and the placid Baldwin.

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Leading international scholars from across Europe explore the reception of Wells across the continent, including his cinematic afterlives. Includes a historical timeline and comprehensive bibliography.

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A pioneering scholarly collection of essays outlining W.B. Yeats' reception and influence in Europe

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A study that examines and accounts for the turn in international fiction in English towards images of the storyteller.

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"Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie." Focusing on French literature of the Romantic era, the author probes the manifold significance of imprisonment as symbol and metaphor of the human condition. His thematic exploration draws on a constellation of writers ranging from th

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Published to coincide with his biography of Iris Murdoch, Peter Conradi's critical appreciation of her work is reissued in a revised and updated new edition, with a foreword by John Bayley.

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From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality.

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Anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the question of who people are for the question of what they believe.

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This volume provides a detailed analysis of Vonnegut's short fiction and shows that his short stories are an integral part of his overall canon.

The short stories do not simply precede Vonnegut's novels.

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To teach the truth smilingly was, during the Renaissance, a frequently expressed goal among prose writers and poets such as Erasmus, Berni, Ronsard, Rabelais, and du Bellay, who adopted an ironic posture within their mock encomia in order to refer the reader beyond the realm of the literary structure. In this book Annette Tomarken reconstructs the

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Why do artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and others who are usually classified as intellectuals leave the ivory tower to "dirty their hands" in the political arena In an effort to illuminate the intellectual's struggle to come to grips with the issues raised by political involvement, David Schalk examines the life and thought of five intellec

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