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  • Danish Literature as World Literature

    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Despite being a minor language, Danish literature is one of the world's most actively translated, and the Scandinavian country is the home of a number of significant writers. Hans Christian Andersen remains one of the most translated authors in the world, philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspired modern Existentialism, Karen Blixen chronicled her life in colonial Kenya as well as writing imaginary, ... Leer más

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  • Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis

    How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a ... Leer más

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  • Black and Blur

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    Series Libro [5. 1] - consent not to be a single being
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  • The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

    Presenting the Past

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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  • How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

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  • The World in a Book

    Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

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    A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of ... Leer más

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  • Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition

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  • Study and Revise for GCSE: An Inspector Calls

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