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In these essays, three of which have not previously been published, Celia Britton discusses a variety of texts from the point of view of their engagement with the cultural and political issues that have been prominent in Martinique and Guadeloupe from the mid-twentieth century to... the present day.
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This monograph, the first full-length study of Laforgue in English for 25 years, reveals how Laforgue's formative encounter with Schopenhauer and Hartmann was crucially informed by ideas of otherness, ideas associated not only with their work but also with German culture and with... the Eastern thought that both philosophers drew on.
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Zoric explores the rhetorical construction of force in indirect exile and in literary responses to it. Between banishment, a compulsory exile, and expatriation, a voluntary one, many legal systems have allowed for a third model. In such an exile the degree of compulsion is never ...explicitly defined, but all involved understand that it is real.
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How British was the British theatre during and after the Second World War? This book tells the unique story of five German-speaking actors who, after arriving as refugees from Nazi Germany, made the transition to the British stage in a period of heightened nationalism before and ...during World War II.
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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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Foreign Parts offers a case study in Anglo-German relations in the theatre.
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What do we mean when we talk about intimacy? Rather than approach the concept as an age-old aspect of love, friendship or desire, Intimacy and Distance identifies the nineteenth century as a period in which intimacy and its lexicon came sharply to the fore.
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Blanchot and the Moving Image explores a constellation of connections between Blanchot, film and film theory and draws lines of intellectual influence to show how Blanchot's thinking of literature find its way by a kind of displacement into contemporary philosophical approaches t...o cinema.
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Discourses of degeneration (social, political, medical) peaked in the 1890s across Europe, and posited the moral and biological decline, even sterility, of European nations. In early twentieth-century Spain, the novels of Pio Baroja and Vicente Blasco Ibanez both assimilated and ...subverted cultural myths of degeneration.
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In the late Middle Ages, the Low Countries - ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy and their Hapsburg successors - boasted a dynamic literary culture in both French and Dutch. The Multilingual Muse brings together an unprecedented community of scholars, both historians and literary spec...ialists, to chart these interactions.
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