Scottish Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 8

Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

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Agata Szczeszak-Brewer,
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life. Staging a vital counter-narrative t…

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Michael Dirda
The Great Age of Storytelling

With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"---as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called---aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fan…

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Flann O'Brien
Best of Myles

"The best comic writer I can think of." S.J. Perelman

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Keith Hanley,
Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to rep…

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Jane Helen Findlater
The Green Graves of Balgowrie

A tale of isolation, love, and loss in 18th century Scotland.In the isolated mansion of Balgowrie, sisters Henrietta and Lucie Marjorybanks live a sheltered life with their widowed mother. As they navigat…

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Tobias William Harris,
Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Situating O…

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Natalie Roxburgh
The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues …

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Brad Kent
Censorship and the Irish Writer

Censorship affected the careers of many Irish writers and transformed the trajectory of modern Irish literature. Although some authors were reluctant to defend themselves and their art, others strenuously…

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Power and Society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld

A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, histo…

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Piya Pal-Lapinski
Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities. …

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Henry James,
On Writers and Writing

"Best known as a master novelist, Henry James was also an incisive critic whose essays on the novel had as profound an influence on its development as did his fiction. Here, Pulitzer-finalist Michael…

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Gill Plain
Agatha Christie

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life…

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Juliette Atkinson
George Eliot

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringGeorge Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was jud…

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Madness in Literature and Visual Culture

A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unp…

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John Berger
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

A stunning, unclassifiable work by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers and writers, this book is an inspiring amalgam of letters, poetry, and profound musings on everything from Caravaggio to…

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

A guide for today's classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writerTeaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First…

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