Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and...
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the...
Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramon and Zenobia Jimenez
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The translations by Juan Ramon Jimenez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for...
Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's the Road
Julian Murphet and Mark Steven
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The Politics and Aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary...
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater
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Reflecting Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history and philosophy,...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture
Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana
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India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised...
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing
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Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to...
The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
Celeste Mari Bernier, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman and Matthew Pethers
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This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field - the history of letters and...
The Oxford Book of Parodies
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Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious...
The Thrill of Repulsion: Excursions into Horror Culture
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This collection of carefully curated lists, articles, and interviews celebrates the beleaguered...