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Author: George Negus
George Negus is one of Australia's most respected journalists. As the host of SBS TV's Dateline, and in his earlier international programs Foreign Correspondent and 60 Minutes, George has traversed the world, meeting and ... |
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Author: Primo Levi
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From h ... |
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Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical lett ... |
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Author: James Joyce
"Finnegans Wake" is the most bookish of all books. John Bishop has described it as 'the single most intentionally crafted literary artefact that our culture has produced'. In its original format, however, the book has be ... |
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A Biography
Author: A. N. Wilson
This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography ch ... |
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A Personal History
Author: Jonathan Franzen
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys ... |
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Sartre versus Camus
Author: Andy Martin
Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the mid ... |
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Author: Tomas Hagg
Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hagg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beg ... |
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Literature and Science in the Works of Italo Calvino
Author: Kerstin Pilz
This book presents an analysis of the dialogue of literature and science that forms a central part of the work of Italo Calvino, one of Italy's best known contemporary authors. It provides an in-depth study of Calvino's ... |
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The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature
Author: John D. Rosenberg
In an age of radical transformation, the Victorians were caught between a vanishing past and an uncertain future. In the face of such a dizzying present, connecting with their past became for the Victorians a kind of sur ... |
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The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Colombus to Jules Verne
Author: Frank Lestringant
Mapping the origins and evolution of the word 'cannibal', Lestringant describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians. In a wide-ranging discussion he surveys the myth and the r ... |
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Studies in English Literature
Author: D.S. Brewer
Derek Brewer, here on the brink of his long and successful career, takes a look at issues in English literature which were to remain of enduring interest to him. Lecturing in Japan at the time, a country where English cu ... |
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Author: Helen Phillips
How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view Chaucer's relationship to religion? And how can he be taught and studied in an increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment? ... |
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Author: Diana Glenn
Offers an analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's 'Comedy'. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in "Inferno IV" and "Purgatorio XXII", to which may be added the grouping in " ... |
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Author: Ursula Tidd
This is a full-length study exploring Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in Le deuxieme sexe and her other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Dr ... |
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A Critical English Edition
Author: Guido Cavalcanti
Cavalcanti is a key figure in the development of Italian poetry, and a fascinating character in the shadow of his contemporary and friend Dante Alighieri. Cavalcanti also has an interesting place in the cannon of English ... |
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Author: Ita Mac Carthy
Follows the poem's enquiry into women's place in society, their behaviour, education, sexuality and relations with men by means of several case studies. This book also situates Ariosto's women in relation to their predec ... |
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A Requiem
Author: Inger Christensen
The Dedalus Press series of budget pamphlets presents works by major voices in world poetry. Inger Christensen (1935 - 2009) was one of Denmark's best-known poets and was widely celebrated throughout Europe and the Unite ... |
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In the Age of Globalisation
Author: Stuart Taberner
Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future direction of culture, politics and ... |
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Author: Don William Cruickshank
Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is Spain's most important early modern dramatist. His varied career as a playwright, courtier, soldier and priest placed him at the heart of Spanish culture, and he reflected on ... |
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