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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock

by Staines, David

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This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

The hidden plot

The hidden plot: notes on theatre and the state

by Bond, Edward

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This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama from its origin in the human mind to the use made of it in history and the present. It explains the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war.

Not far from here

Not far from here: the Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver
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Hailed as the ""American Chekhov"" by the Times Literary Supplement, Raymond Carver is the most popular and influential American short-story writer since Ernest Hemingway. His works have been adapted to film and translated into more than twenty languages. Yet despite this intern…

Citizen

Citizen: an American lyric

by Rankine, Claudia

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Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the superma…

Albert Camus's The stranger

Albert Camus's The stranger: critical essays
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"Often marginalised on the sidelines of both philosophy and literature, the works of Albert Camus have, in recent years, undergone a renaissance. While most readers in either discipline claim Camus and his works to be 'theirs', the scholars presented in this volume tend to see h…