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  • - Fictions and Theories of the Present
    af Peter Marks & Roger Luckhurst
    653,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

    Aims to provide evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day. Included are essays on key texts of the 1990s, from Graham Swift's "Last Orders" to Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres".

  • - 1900-1950
    af Lee Horsley
    345,95 - 1.592,95 kr.

    This text presents a fictional representation of political power in the first half of the 20th century. Amongst the main themes explored are the lure of political romanticism and the construction of the distinctly "British" political identity.

  • af Tracy Brain
    656,95 - 1.711,95 kr.

    Tracy Brain introduces completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was concerned with a much wider range of important cultural and political topics. .

  • - Moments of Danger
    af Richard Kirkland
    621,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

    This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives.

  • - Fiction, Femininity, Feminism
    af Trev Lynn Broughton, USA) Bristow & Joseph (UCLA
    577,95 - 1.652,95 kr.

    This text provides a detailed overview of Angela Carter, one of the most gifted, subversive and stylish of British writers to emerge in the 1960s. It examines her fascination with female sexuality from her earliest writings to her works of the 1990s.

  • - Modernism and After
    af Steven Matthews & Keith Williams
    448,95 - 1.886,95 kr.

    This study examines the major literary figures and works of the 1930's. It looks at the themes, philosophies and trends in the writings of this era.

  • - Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern
    af Peter Brooker
    282,95 - 600,95 kr.

    This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of contemporary American writing using the example of New York City. The book challenges the simplified view that postmodernism ended modernist critique and left political opposition.

  • af Neil Roberts
    539,95 - 1.701,95 kr.

    This study of post-war poetry in English looks at how poetry has become more and more like the novel, and the reasons for this change. The text examines the narrative change in poetry through individual studies of 12 major English-language poets including Derek Walcott and Ted Hughes.

  • - Language, Illusion & Beyond
    af . Paul Bentley
    617,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

    This text provides an introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with man. It also places Hughes' poems in a theoretical context of significant developments in literary theory that occured during his lifetime.