Literary Studies: from c 1900
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The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law
Joseph HassettCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The immortal prose, ultimately recogn...
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The Aesthetics of Failure: Inexpressibility in Samuel Becketts Fiction
Marcin TereszewskiCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to empha...
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Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries: From Henry Adams to John Adams
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Since its origin, American literature has always had an uneasy relationship with science: born at a time when science was becoming a profession, it...
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Authorship in Nabokovs Prefaces
Jacqueline HamritCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between the death of the author (Barthes) and the return of the author (Couturier), this work sugg...
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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl''s Letters to his Mother
Donald SturrockCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-...
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
Peter FinnCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West.1956. Boris Pasternak presses a man...
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Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction
Jo LabanyiCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th cen...
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Margaret AtwoodCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a wr...
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Jack Hodgins: Essays on His Works
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Triumph at Midnight in the Century: A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea -- Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War
Michael EaudeCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write c...
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Surrealism and Quebec Literature: History of a Cultural Revolution
Andre G BourassaCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Current price €38.69Original price €42.99Save 10% -
Bewilderments of Vision: Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914
Dr. Oliver TearleCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often un...
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Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel
Leonora FlisCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specific...
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