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In the last twenty-five years, there has been a revolution in literary study in the English-speaking world involving two related shifts in understanding. One is the recognition that the study of literature requires a theoretical grounding, and the other is an acknowledgement that such a grounding is contingent upon the realization that ours is a postmodernist world. Despite much resistance from traditional literary historians and formalist cri...

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For students and scholars of literary theory, this unique volume provides organized access to a diverse body of literature. The 5, 523 entries include listings of books, articles, and dissertations culled from such sources as the MLA International Bibliography, Dissertation Abstracts, Language and Language Behavior Abstracts, and the annual bibliography of the Modern Humanities Research Association. . . . Researchers can look forward to a Dict...

Orr has prepared a much-needed historical and international dictionary of the language of critical theory. He includes terms which appeared with great frequency in the indexes to anthologies of critical theory, either general or specific to a period or school, terms which appeared in the indexes to standard histories of criticism, schools of criticism or broad types of criticism, and key terms from foreign-language critical theory. All definit...

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Helping students navigate a full range of texts, concepts and debates, this is a comprehensive introduction to the vast and emotionally charged field of Holocaust Literature from 1933 to the present. Holocaust Literature: An Introduction covers: - A wide range of genres, from diaries and memoirs to fiction, poetry, drama and film. - Key themes such as trauma, memory, translation, identity, authenticity and aesthetics. - Writers who experienced...

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Leonard Orr, one of the originators--along with Ram Dass, Fritz Perls, and Timothy Leary--of the New Age movement, has spent a lifetime in his own quest for physical immortality, and he claims to have achieved it. In this easy-to-read book, he shows readers how they can, too, laying out the fundamental elements of transcending the physical in order to obtain everlasting life. Illustrations.

On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

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