This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism.

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9780859894043 | Published: 1995

In this new edition, John Flower provides a full contextualising introduction of Jean Paulhan’s Lettre aux directeurs de la Résistance. The volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of this turbulent period and provides a documentary history of the post-war political and literary debates in Paris.

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9780859897242 | Published: 2003

Between Totem and Taboo picks its way through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes.  It is the first book to explore the literary representation by authors black and white, male and female, of interracial relations between France and her former territories in West Africa through the special nexus of the white woman and the black man.

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9780859896498 | Published: 2001

This offers an understanding of British Cinema between 1928 and 1939 through an analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and other ‘culture industries’ such as the radio, music recording, publishing and early television.

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9780859897976 | Published: 2009

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9780859899017 | Published: 2015

This is the first translation into English of this Italian novel and the Introduction by Luisa Quartermaine includes background on the book.

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9780859894692 | Published: 1997

This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking.

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9780859895323 | Published: 1997

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9780859895316 | Published: 1997

This is a study of the nine prose fiction works of Christiane Rochefort written between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has hitherto received little critical attention. Her fiction forms an approachable learning tool for all students of post-war French politics and culture.

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9780859895866 | Published: 1998

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9780859895859 | Published: 1998

François Mauriac is one of France's most read and consistently studied modern writers. Most of the essays in this collection are written from a psychobiographical or psychocritical viewpoint, drawing on the work of Freud, Marthe Robert, Klein, Lacan and Mauron.

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9780859894272 | Published: 1995

This is the first full-length study of John McGrath's work, and illuminates the importance of his role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century.

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9780859897495 | Published: 2005

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9780859897488 | Published: 2005

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9780859899130 | Published: 2015

The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature discussed in this volume falls into two main categories: the work of the Galician novelist, short-story writer and critic, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and the wider context of prose fiction and criticism during the period 1870 to 1935.

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9780859895750 | Published: 1999