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Granta 78: Bad Companyby: Ian Jack
A fiction special, introducing two new authors. Gary Shteyngart is not yet 30. His story, "Several Anecdotes About My Wife", is a funny and scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's disastrous marriage to a native New Yorker. Jon McGregor works as washer-up in a Nottingham restaurant. His... |
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Granta 79: Celebrityby: Ian Jack
An issue devoted to the dubious rewards and strange effects of fame which successfully avoids mentioning Andy Warhol. |
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Artificial Paradisesby: Mike Jay
Revealing the diverse roles mind-altering drugs have played throughout history, this collection brings together a multiplicity of voices which explore the presence of drugs in science and religion, pleasure and madness, individualism and social control. |
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The Legend of the Grailby: Nigel Bryant
The quest for the Holy Grail is one of the most important elements in the story of King Arthur. Yet even among the many interested in the stories of the Round Table, very few have read at first hand the medieval masterpieces which over a period of some forty years, in the late twelfth and early... |
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Comparative Literature
This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world-wide in the 1990s. In the... |
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Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literatureby: Patricia Waugh
Literary texts are revived and reformulated by each generation of readers, who bring their own historical understanding to bear on the writing of the past. This reader grapples with attempts to understand the way in which the past is continually rewritten in the present. It provides a collection... |
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World Postmodern Fiction: A Guideby: Christopher Nash
How do students make sense of the mass of postmodern literature? This acclaimed volume analyses the common themes and strategies of postmodern fiction, providing a framework in which it can be properly addressed and understood. |
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Mythby: Laurence Coupe
Laurence Coupe offers students a crucial overview of the evolution of 'myth', from the ancient Greek definitions to those of a range of contemporary thinkers. This introductory volume: provides an introduction to both the theory of myth, explores the uses made of the term 'myth' within the fields... |
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The Table is Laid: An Anthology of South Asian Food Writingby: Thieme (Visiting Professor of Literature, University of East Anglia)
This anthology of writings on food brings together a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from South Asia. It draws on writing in English from the subcontinent, as well as the diaspora. It includes extracts from works by V.S.Naipaul, Romesh Gunesekera, Salman Rushdie, Sara Suleri, Kamila... |
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A Chronology of English Literatureby: Martin Gray
This book places over 5000 literary works in chronological relation to each other, and in a context of historical and cultural events. Parts one and two provide coverage of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature. Part three spans the period from 1500 to the present day, and lists, year by year,... |
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