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    393,95 kr.

    Containing twenty-one essays, this Companion is perfect for readers seeking a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's works. It includes stimulating chapters on familiar topics such as Shakespeare's life and the genres in which he wrote, and pioneering accounts of topics including Shakespeare's appearance in new digitalised media.

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    1.072,95 kr.

    Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This updated Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays by an international team of leading scholars on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays.

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    1.104,95 kr.

    Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. This Companion is the first volume to cover all her works in a comprehensive and accessible way. It also includes discussion of her critical reputation, and a guide to further reading.

  • af Ontario) O'Quinn & Daniel (University of Guelph
    387,95 - 555,95 kr.

    This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. Chapters cover subjects such as actors and acting, playwrights and performers and the major theatrical forms of the period such as tragedy, melodrama and pantomime.

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    402,95 kr.

    Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This updated Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays by an international team of leading scholars on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays.

  • af EDITED BY SUKANTA CH
    425,95 - 1.044,95 kr.

    Discusses Tagore's uniquely varied output across literature, music, art, philosophy, history, politics, education and public affairs.

  • af Frank Grady
    330,95 - 933,95 kr.

    English literature, English literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval, Medieval studies

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    964,95 kr.

    This Companion introduces readers to the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. It provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works, including his novels, autobiographical fictions, translations, scholarly books, and volumes of correspondence.

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    333,95 kr.

    This Companion introduces readers to the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. It provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works, including his novels, autobiographical fictions, translations, scholarly books, and volumes of correspondence.

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    248,95 kr.

    This Companion will be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on African American studies and American literature. It will appeal to those wishing to examine black literature in relationship to a variety of disciplines - including psychology, political science, sociology and philosophy - and anyone interested in the relationship between art and social change.

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    360,95 kr.

    The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.

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    370,95 kr.

    An essential companion to the complex and fascinating medieval poem Piers Plowman, consolidating the most enduring research with a provocative range of new directions for studying it. Lucid chapters by leading experts provide the most exciting vistas of studying Piers Plowman in the twenty-first century.

  • af SIOBHAN B. SOMERVILL
    319,95 - 966,95 kr.

    English literature, Literary theory, Sociology of gender

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    274,95 kr.

    Presents an up-to-date, contextualized account of the global reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange and reveals their role in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, Europe and the Americas.

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    1.077,95 kr.

    Presents an up-to-date, contextualized account of the global reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange and reveals their role in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, Europe and the Americas.

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    351,95 kr.

    An authoritative and accessible account of French literature from medieval romance to avant-garde poetry. It explores the medieval roots of modern literature; French tragedy; why the Romantics revered nature; how Proust helped create the modern novel; and the widely varying uses authors have made of the French language.

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    360,95 kr.

    This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled bibliography, it also includes four new chapters by leading scholars, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.

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    388,95 kr.

    Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the development of modern poetry.

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    333,95 kr.

    This book orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts. It illustrates the major methodologies and explains why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage.

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    938,95 kr.

    This book orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts. It illustrates the major methodologies and explains why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage.

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    328,95 kr.

    The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In so doing, it delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.

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    622,95 kr.

    This 1992 Companion addresses both British and international performance, on subjects such as British performing tradition, tragic and comic acting, and women performers of Shakespeare. Designed for readers interested in past and present productions of the plays and to accompany courses in the history of Shakespeare in performance.

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    291,95 kr.

    This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and analysing the state of the field, it will be an important resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century literature.

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    274,95 kr.

    The Companion provides an introduction to the relationship between law and literature in medieval England. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of literature, history and culture in the Anglo-Saxon, medieval and Tudor periods. Scholars will also appreciate the surveys and discussions of literary uses of legal motifs.

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    332,95 kr.

    An accessible introduction to the key trends in nineteenth-century thought within philosophy, history, political thought, economics, religion and the social sciences, as well as feminism and imperialism. This Companion will appeal to scholars and advanced students of these disciplines.

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    274,95 kr.

    This book is aimed at undergraduate students, and taught postgraduate students. It gives students a clear, comprehensive and accessible guide to the key concepts shaping the British novel from 1980 to 2018, which is also driven by original research.

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    375,95 kr.

    The Cambridge Companion to the Novel is for students, professors, and general readers who are looking to understand what this 2,000 year-old genre of the novel is and where it came from, how it works, and where it might be going in the digital age.

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    330,95 kr.

    Daniel Defoe's account of a man surviving alone on an island has challenged readers, and prompted imitators, since his novel first appeared in 1719. This Companion examines what influenced Defoe to write, what ideas he explores, and how readers have responded to the novel and its iconic protagonist.

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    272,95 kr.

    The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing provides a variety of perspectives and approaches on a new and exciting field of academic scholarship in the humanities, appealing to students, graduates and scholars.

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    348,95 kr.

    The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore the postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. Strengthening the place of poetry in postcolonial studies, the Companion also contributes to the globalization of poetry studies.