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Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity
Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Mar…
Presents an introduction to poetry. This text offers an examination of poetic form and its relation to content. It discusses the work of major poets including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W B Yeats, Robert Frost, W H Auden, Seamus…
En slags dagbog over hvad forfatteren har læst i løbet af 2003-2006. Om at læse, de fornøjelser, skuffelser og overraskelser det giver
Although Ian McEwan's later works are more overtly political, more humane and more literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan's prominence in the canon of contemporary Br…
Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways. In Philosophy a…
"Debating literature's greatest heroines with a friend, playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation -- "My whole life, I'd been trying to be Cathy, when I should have been trying to be Jane." With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospective look at the literary ladies -- the c…
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between dev…
Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England. Indeed, by exploring unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels, this volume o…
"The author examines a range of autobiographical and first-person fictional texts from holocaust literature, women's writing and popular fiction. Each text foregrounds issues of memory, history and trauma in the construction of identity. Reading these texts of memory shows that …
"We know that trauma can leave syndromes in its wake. But can the anticipation of violence be a form of violence as well? Tense Future argues that it can-that twentieth-century war technologies and practices, particularly the aerial bombing of population centers, introduced non-…