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The queen, or the excellency of her sex
A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when it was first written in t...
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Literature and class
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
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A knight’s legacy
The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries.
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John lyly and early modern authorship
During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time.
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Not magic but work
This is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a new play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Drawing on years of research...
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The mediated arctic
This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media ...
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Literature and sustainability
This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocrit...
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Gothic effigy
An adventurous and wide-ranging survey of Gothic media, this book investigates everything from oil paintings to album cover art, magic lanterns to video games.
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Robert southwell
Robert Southwell’s poetic view of Spenser’s, Signey’s and Shakespeare’s England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Novel horizons
Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.
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Disclosed poetics
John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity.
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Women reading shakespeare 1660–1900
Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Literatures of the hundred years war
This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approa...
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Extending ecocriticism
Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment.
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Rereading chaucer and spenser
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic autho...
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Stanley cavell
Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism
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Frantz fanon, postcolonialism and the ethics of difference
This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon’s work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomeno...
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Women poets of the english civil war
Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English literature and early modern studies.
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Shakespeare's tutor
Shakespeare’s tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionis...
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Antony and cleopatra
This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Come...
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Spenserian satire
A detailed study of Spenser's poetic legacy, focusing on his reputation as a satirist and his influence on satirical poetry written by his contemporaries.
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Beckett and media
This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work.
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African pasts
Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work o...
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European gothic
The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of trans...
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Hélène cixous
A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969) to the present. He foregrounds Cixous's importance for 'English literature' as well as creative writing, autobiography, narrative theory, psychoanal...
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The lady’s trial
The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello.
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Thomas pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon
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The politics of male friendship in contemporary american fiction
How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes o...
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Kazuo ishiguro
Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new t...
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Contemporary slavic horror across media
In the Western cultural production that puts individual or collective fear at its center, East/Central Europe has been portrayed as an othered space of horror – lawless, frightening zones where anything can happen. Incorporating articles on literature, film, visual arts, video games, music videos...
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Gothic documents
How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which broke. Based on intensive research, it demonstr...
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A literature of restitution
Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.
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French origins of english tragedy
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.
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Mid-century women's writing
This book re-examines British women’s writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.
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Swoon
Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning’s rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.
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Shakespeare for the wiser sort
Steve Sohmer’s book solves literally dozens of Shakespeare’s riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them.
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American literature and irish culture, 1910–55
This book discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre of the discussion, it shows how Irishness became a cultural determinant in the work of American mod...
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Chinua achebe
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker
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Imagining women readers, 1789–1820
From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.
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The poems of elizabeth siddal in context
Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.
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Dante and the victorians
Groundbreaking, erudite and interdisciplinary volume on the influence of Dante throughout the Victorian period
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Geoffrey hill's later work
An exploration of the later work of Geoffrey Hill, often described as ‘the greatest living poet’ in his lifetime. This book reads, interprets, evaluates, and sets in context the work of Hill’s prolific later period from 1996 to 2016, the year of his death.
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The narrative grotesque in medieval scottish poetry
The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.
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From iceland to the americas
This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural...
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John donne's performances
A comparative reading of Donne's poetry and prose, which eschews questions of personal or religious sincerity in order to recreate an image of John Donne as a man of many performances
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R. k. narayan
A comprehensive study of Narayan’s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels
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Absolutely postcolonial
Provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available
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Popular reading in english c. 1400–1600
Lectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies
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Women and madness in the early romantic novel
This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women’s mental and emotional afflic...
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James baldwin review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an ...
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Contemporary chaucer across the centuries
This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, provi...
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Cultural value in twenty-first-century england
Examines Shakespeare’s role in contemporary culture
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La vida de lazarillo de tormes
The Spanish novella La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades was published anonymously in Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel.
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Instead of modernity
At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with “modernity” that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies.
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Rethinking the south english legendaries
Rethinking the South English legendaries offers theoretically fresh approaches to the major vernacular collection of saints' lives in the English Middle Ages, combining leading scholars and new voices in the field. The volume creates a new platform for thinking about this richly dynamic but so fa...
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Italian fascism and anti-fascism
A unique work that collections, for the first time, a wide variety of materials on both Italian fascism and antifascism.
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Gothic kinship
Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family
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French reflections in the shakespearean tragic
Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts
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On the uses of history in recent irish writing
Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cultural criticism, the study of cultural memory, as well as on radical models of time and history, this book explores the varied, creative, and often critically challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in contemporary prose, drama an...
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The women's suffrage movement
Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women’s suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus. It i...
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Shakespeare the reviser
Shakespeare as a reviser of others' work is an area of growing scholarly interest. Marina Tarlinskaya draws a formal distinction between editing, revision, and rewriting. The poem A Lover's Complaint serves as an example of revision. Based on linguistic–statistical analysis, Tarlinskaya suggests ...
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Beginning postmodernism
This second edition of Beginning postmodernism offers clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects.
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Spilling the beans
Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women’s consumption and production are manifest in novelists’ and novels’ accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.
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Marian maternity in late-medieval england
Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate pr...
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Collections xvii
The latest in the Malone Society’s series which prints materials bearing on the study of Renaissance and early modern drama.
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Women beware women by thomas middleton
Women Beware Women is among the most powerful and adroitly-plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Shakespeare, the play deals with topics of enduring fascination such as sexual and financial greed, the sexual exploitation of women by a manipulative ol...
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Thomas nashe and literary performance
Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, ‘non-literary’, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, ...
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Nordic gothic
Giving an overview of contemporary Nordic Gothic in different media as well as tracing its history, Nordic Gothic also provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It explores Nordic folklore, settings and identities as well as making visible cultural anxietie...
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'the world' and other unpublished works of radclyffe hall
Presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall.
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Reading poetry
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems|This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows a...
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Charlotte brontë
Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has...
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Jim crace
Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).
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Jeanette winterson
This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction.
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Pyostryye skazki
Odoyevsky’s cycle of short stories, Pyostryye skazki (1833), is a transitional work between his writings of the 1820s (in particular his contributions to Mnemozina, 1824–5) and his mature period which culminated in Russkiye nochi (1844). Pyostryye skazki thus represents a romantic amalgam of elem...
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Shakespeare's resources
A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of ‘source’ study in relation to Shakespeare. By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and th...
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Annotated chaucer bibliography
An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
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Nietzsche and irish modernism
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher’s ideas in Irish culture during the early years of the twentieth century. In doing so, the book demonstrates how Nietzsche’s thought inspired new, disruptive modes of writing, which spoke to local historical cir...
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Enthusiast!
Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. The book establishes enthusiasm as a defining feature of American literature. It shows how enthusiasm is fundamental to the circulation of culture. It
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Italian women writing
How has it happened that from being politely ignored or marginalized just half a century ago, women writers in Italy are now at the centre of literary activity? To what extent does writing by women reflect the successes and failures of Italy in the post-war period? What form did the feminist move...
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Shakespeare's adolescents
Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the ‘signs’ of the maturation used to construct Shakespe...
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Incest in contemporary literature
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, ...
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More than a game
The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible...
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