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  • Digressions in European Literature

    From Cervantes to Sebald

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    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day. ... Leer más

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  • Ian McEwan's Enduring Love

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    de Peter Childs ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Lovea critical history, ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture

    Edición de Nicholas Rzhevsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been ... Leer más

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  • Chaos Imagined

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    de Martin Meisel ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

    Edición de Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Günter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was ... Leer más

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  • The Captivity of John II, 1356-60

    The Royal Image in Later Medieval England and France

    de Neil Murphy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II’s four years in English captivity. Neil Murphy shows how the French king’s competition with Edward III led to a revolution in the presentation of the royal image, manifesting through developments to the sacral character of the French monarchy, lavish displays of gift giving, and ... Leer más

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  • The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction

    The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture. The artists who emerged at this time unleashed a tidal wave of creativity that deliberately and aggressively reshaped inherited models. In this first English monograph on contemporary Ukrainian literature, Mark Andryczyk provides an in-depth analysis of the cultural explosion that engulfed ... Leer más

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  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    de Ryszard Nycz ...
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    Series Libro 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
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  • Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

    Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical discourse in the early modern period; the necessity of inventing a new way of describing the ... Leer más

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  • Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature

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