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Victoria Adams
Digital Media, Memory and Heritage in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro

Since the 1970s, Brazil's authorities have regarded the country's past as a source of cultural and economic value. In the late 2000s, a boom in Brazil's consumer economy served to make smartphones and soc…

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Gabriella Addivinola
Alan of Lille and Dante

Divine predication is a central concern of two key authors of Western medieval culture: the theologian and poet Alan of Lille (1125/30-1202/3) and Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). In representing the created …

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Jeremy Adler
From the Renaissance to Modernism

This volume collects Jeremy Adler's keynote essays on poetry and experimental writing. Employing a distinctive philological method, he analyses Goethe's links to Renaissance poetics, German idealist phil…

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Richard Andrews
Classical Comedy 1508-1786

We may recognize similarities between comedies by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais; but it is not fully appreciated that these playwrights belong to a single continuous genre of comedy inspired…

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Marta Arnaldi
The Diasporic Canon

The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another language and country. By exploring Italian poetry's potential for mobility and transformat…

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Samir Ayoub
Taking a human approach

English translation of the successful German title 'Mach's menschlich' - now available for the international market!What does a working world look like when people and their needs come first?Attracting ne…

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Georgina Barker
SPQR in the USSR

Since her rise to notoriety among the dissident artists of the 1970s Leningrad underground, Elena Shvarts (1948-2010) has earned a place in the canon of great Russian poets for the originality, riotousnes…

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Susan Bassnett
Tales of Travellers and Translators

In this wide-ranging collection, Susan Bassnett, one of the founding figures of translation studies and contemporary comparative literature, reflects on comparing literatures, translation, travel writing,…

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Dorothée Boulanger
Fiction as History

Fiction as History is an interdisciplinary analysis of over twenty Angolan novels written from the 1960s to the 2010s by some of the country's most celebrated writers: Pepetela, Manuel dos Santos Lima, Ma…

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Jade Boyd
The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour's psychological, bodily and material agency. B…

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Jacobo de Camps
Walter Benjamin's Calderón

Why did philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin say that Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81) was the virtual subject of his rejected Habilitation thesis on German baroque drama,…

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Peter Dayan
For the Love of Art

How do we decide what to value as music, or as poetry, or as art? For at least a century, since we were first told that noise might be music, and since Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Kurt Schwitters, and M…

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Alessandra Diazzi
Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975

Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with suspicion, as a fin-de-si…

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Marco Faini
Standing at the Crossroads

Imagined as an armed old man leaping like a locust or as a young man walking in the dark, doubt occupies a prominent place in the mental landscape of Renaissance Italians. Intriguing stories of doubters, …

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John N. Green, Marie-Anne Hintze
Aspirations to Silence

Nothing raises purist hackles so fiercely as des haricots 'beans' pronounced with a /z/ liaison or un haricot 'one bean' with a linking /n/. In Reference French, it is stigmatized as uneducated, like drop…

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Mairéad Hanrahan
Genet's Genres of Politics

In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet's writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels to the struggle for emancipation of the Palestinians in the posthu…

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Jane Hiddleston
Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon remains one of the greatest and most influential postcolonial thinkers. If he has been analysed by turns as a political thinker, a philosopher and a psychiatrist, however, he has less often b…

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Mara Josi
Rome, 16 October 1943

Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporar…

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Catriona Kelly
Out of Focus

A conventional view of Russia represents it as a country where autocracy, centralised rule, and domination by the 'power vertical' both inside and outside the country are inescapable facts of the past and…

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Robert Lethbridge
Zola's Painters

As the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early cham…

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