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In this book Adam Piette establishes fascinating new links between sound effects and the representation of memory in literary texts. He sets out a workable taxonomy of sound-repetitions in prose and formulates, through a theory of alerting-devices, the ways in which the reader's attention is drawn to the acoustic surface of the text. Piette scrutinizes Mallarme's prose-poetry, Proust's musical syntax, Joyce's memory-rhymes (from the Portrait o...

The Literary Cold War" concentrates on authors who straddle the line between aesthetic project and political allegory, paying particular attention to the work of Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene. A paranoid plotline informs these and other Anglo-American texts, from Storm Jameson and John Dos Passos to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and they commonly trade in the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer who finds himself caught up in sacrifi...

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ

AUTHOR-APPROVED 'Remarkably ambitious, richly satisfying, and wide ranging edited collection of essays that pretty much defines this emerging field of study.' -- Patrick Deer, The Space Between 'A monumental work, edited by two stalwarts of the subject, Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson.' -- Rebecca D'Monte, The Year's Work in English Studies 'A substantial and formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and inno...