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Encompassing Mariani's career, Traces of Time examines the poet's relationship to history and how poetry can exist outside of it.

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This work presents a critical perspective on many of the best-known texts of Algerian literature in French. It also discusses Maghrebian immigration into France; contemporary French writing about the Maghreb; and "nomadic" poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity and sociality.

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A history of Welsh women's writing in both Welsh and English during the twentieth century. This book identifies and analyses a distinctive female literary tradition and reveals that Wales is represented very much as 'a different country' by its modern women writers.

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Who is guest, and who is host Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaursall building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas.

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The essays of Untimely Passages emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and atmosphere of the crises of modernism accompanying Jerry Zaslove's reading of world literature.

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One of the most acclaimed authors on the meaning of reading and writing takes on Nabokov's classic memoir.

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When the Kissing Had to Stop is Leonard at his best, with his reflections on the best new literature of today and what it can tell us about America now.

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This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to 'home and duty' for women.

Maps the state of popular literature and reading in America, including the growth of blogs, interactive fiction, and other electronic media. This book includes entries, which provides a definition of the genre, its history, trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, and the genre's critical reception.

This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars.

In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most prominent thinkers and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. It opens a new critical discourse that reshapes our current understanding of Bakhtin.

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The end of World War II led to increased interest in multicultural concerns and a flourishing of literary and artistic endeavors.

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Offers an investigation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials Trilogy", and the insights it offers to the world. Contributors with backgrounds in philosophy, theology, science fiction, and children's literature help readers find their way through Pullman's trilogy.

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Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

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Organized around each decade of the postwar period, this book analyses novels written by and for women since 1945. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women, which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers, such as Barbara Cartland, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel, and their work.

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Compact guide to the great modernist writer.

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