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In this 'history from below' of what is one of Europe's most famous and important avant-garde movements, large-scale questions on the history of Futurism are explored by focusing on objects, practices and situations as diverse as The Church, Puppets, The Letterhead or Gymnastics.
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Making use of insights from Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and Marcuse, among others, Mark Sabine argues that Saramago sought to engage his reader with a skeptical but vibrant utopianism: teaching us to abandon absolutes and embrace error as inevitable, and, indeed, even necessary.
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Divided into three sections devoted to chivalric poems, academic debates and Anglo-Italian relations, and dedicated to the work of Jane E. Everson, this volume highlights the relevance of Italian early modernity in framing and shaping European culture well into our contemporary w...orld.
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Ruskin's diary of his 1835 journey and associated writings, together with numerous drawings he made in relation to it, are annotated and fully catalogued for the first time in this edition that includes maps and an introductory essay.
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Perpetual Motion aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism, the age of Andr Breton (1896-1966), and the postmodernism of such poets as Pierre Alferi (1963-). For Sheringham, a sense of motion and plasticity flows through French poetry, and reveals itself through themes of r...hythm, inspiration, sensation, love, colour and the city.
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Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 1921 - Madrid 2004) was one of Spain's most significant writers of the post-civil war period, but a primarily historical approach to reading her work may have distorted our understanding. In this book, Wells argues that the five major novels need to be r...ead as a collective meditation on the subject of relief.
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Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line 'Story books for women, holy books for men' in the opening scene of the popular movie Yentl. This volume seeks to give a more multi-faceted picture of the topic.
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In this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Though his novels have enjoyed great popularity in English in recent years, this is the first collection of his major essays to appear in English.
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Through an exploration of the autobiographies of the Russian-American writer, Vladimir Nabokov, the French novelist and poet, Georges Perec, and the Caribbean author, Patrick Chamoiseau, Cooper offers a reflection on the role of migration and linguistic change in shaping twentiet...h and twenty-first century approaches to memory.
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Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or happily reproduces. But once this intimate dialogue transitions into another language, culture or medium, it must repositio...n itself within new conventions. How does this happen in practice?
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