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French Literature - A Cultural History

by Alison Finch

25,67€ + 10% CARD

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 * The first book to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings. * Highlights the unique nature of the society that, over a millennium, has produced French culture .
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African American Theater - A Cultural Companion

81,11€ + 10% CARD

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 Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, Black Theater: A Cultural Companion 1850 - Today will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. The book takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays dramatists wrote and produced.
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Modern Irish Theatre

by Mary Trotter

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 Through analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to 20th century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world.
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Russian Literature

by Andrew Baruch Wachtel e Ilya Vinitsky

81,11€ + 10% CARD

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 For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century.
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Modern Italian Literature

by Ann (Warwick University) Hallamore Caesar e Michael (None) Caesar

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present.
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Romance Writing

by Lynne (University Of Lancaster) Pearce

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years.
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Russian Literature

by Andrew Baruch Wachtel e Ilya Vinitsky

31,08€ + 10% CARD

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 For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century.
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Romance Writing

by Lynne (University Of Lancaster) Pearce

24,32€ + 10% CARD

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 Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years.
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The European Avant-Garde - 1900-1940

by Andrew J. (Churchill College, Cambridge) Webber

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
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Detective Fiction

by Charles J. (Boston University) Rzepka

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 * A wide-ranging overview of Detective Fiction from its origins to the present day. * Combines general socio-historical background with 'casebook' chapters, providing students with close readings of key texts and introducing them to a variety of critical approaches.
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Detective Fiction

by Charles J. (Boston University) Rzepka

24,32€ + 10% CARD

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 * A wide-ranging overview of Detective Fiction from its origins to the present day. * Combines general socio-historical background with 'casebook' chapters, providing students with close readings of key texts and introducing them to a variety of critical approaches.
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Modern Italian Literature

by Ann (Warwick University) Hallamore Caesar e Michael (None) Caesar

24,32€ + 10% CARD

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 This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present, establishing the continuities as well as the discontinuities of the Italian literary tradition.
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The European Avant-Garde - 1900-1940

by Andrew J. (Churchill College, Cambridge) Webber

24,32€ + 10% CARD

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 This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
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Crimes That Shocked The World

by Danny Collins

10,29€

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 In this book, true crime expert Danny Collins examines 22 crimes from the last 40 years that have been so shocking their impact is still felt today.
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Democracy Against The State - Marx And The Machiavellian Movement

by Miguel Abensour

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 * Miguel Abensour is an influential political philosopher in France, well-known for his highly original interpretations of Marx. * The text provides a reading of the young Marx's work on politics, democracy and the state, linking Marx's writings with elements of Levinas's work and anarchism.
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The Meaning Of Cooking

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 In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree,' said Boswell, but no beast is a cook.
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The Autism Matrix

by Gil (Professor Of Sociology, Columbia University) Eyal

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 * This book is a highly original, path-breaking analysis of the huge increase in the number of cases of diagnosed autism in the US, the UK and other societies. It brings a distinctive sociological perspective to bear on the autism epidemic .
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Cultural History Of English Literature 1660-1789

by Charlotte Sussman

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 * Introduction to the literature of the eighteenth century and its cultural, social and political contexts. * Ties literary developments to the shaping of modernity during the period, including the growth of cities, global trade and travel, and rights for women, workers and slaves.
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Cultural History Of English Literature 1660-1789

by Charlotte (Duke University) Sussman

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 * Introduction to the literature of the eighteenth century and its cultural, social and political contexts. * Ties literary developments to the shaping of modernity during the period, including the growth of cities, global trade and travel, and rights for women, workers and slaves.
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Middle English Literature - A Cultural History

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 This history restores Middle English literature to the rich culture that produced it by means of five unusual categories (technology, insurgency, statecraft, place, and jurisdiction). It also uses these categories to show how this literature was remarkably effective, able to shape this larger culture in its turn.
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Ancient Greek Literature

by Tim (Exeter University) Whitmarsh

27,03€

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 In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting--edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity.

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