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This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers. The first monograph-length study of postmemory in British fiction, it focuses on a group of texts about the World Wars. -- .

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This is the first paperback edition of a classic Virginia Woolf study, essential to the understanding of perhaps the greatest of Britain's female writers. Recollections, anecdotes and first-hand impressions including pieces from some of the leading lights of the Bloomsbury Group are all included in a perceptive and profound volume.

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The first comprehensive critical review of the Canadian novel from beginning of the 21st century to the present.

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First collection of Lowry's extensive poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano.

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Sherlock Holmes has charmed and fascinated millions of people around the world since his first appearance over a century ago. But who is Holmes The world's most famous detective A drug addict with a heart as cold as ice A millstone around the neck of his creator This book discusses this iconic fictional creation.

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Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static background

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Features prose translations that remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a language that echoes the effect created by Moliere's verse. This title discusses Moliere's life; Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and the comic tradition; and, the setting, casting, and style of the plays.

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Features prose translations that remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a language that echoes the effect created by Moliere's verse. This title discusses Moliere's life; Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and the comic tradition; and, the setting, casting, and style of the plays.

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In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious i

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An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a wide-ranging discussion of the changing nature, status and ideological concerns of working-class writing.

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Glyn Jones is widely regarded as one of the finest prose writers in English that Wales has produced, with particular praise being given to his short stories. In the words of his contemporary Gwyn Jones "He is the author of the loveliest prose of our generation".

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First published in 1968, this text is a comprehensive study of the English-language literature of Wales, and contains chapters on several of the main writers, including Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Idris Davies.

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"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique

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The first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era.

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Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples.

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Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, the first writer in Portuguese to receive the world's most prized literary award. This book covers both his acclaimed historically-based fictions and his, allegorical works, demonstrating the continuity of thought and image between these two phases of the writer's career.

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