Literary studies: from c 2000

From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century?

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1913: The year of French modernism is the first book to respond to two deceptively simple questions: "e;What constituted modernism in France?

This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism.

'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable .

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences.

Der vorliegende Band nimmt eine Kopplung von Bild- und Raumtheorie vor, die den missing links zwischen beiden Bereichen nachspürt und sie gleichzeitig in Beziehung zu Erzählungen setzt.

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists.

This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to today.

Five Irish Women is comprised of five interlinked portraits of exceptional Irish women from various fields - literature, journalism, music, politics - who have achieved outstanding reputations since the 1960s: Edna O'Brien, Sinead O'Connor, Nuala O'Faolain, Bernadette McAliskey and Anne Enright.

Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis.

Dans plusieurs pays africains, les relations sexuelles entre personnes de même sexe font l'objet d'un déni considérable.

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists.

With its in-depth look at some of the themes and real-life stories behind the fiction, The Dan Brown Companion gives a unique insight into the world of one of the most successful bestselling novelists of our time.