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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages.
Autumn in London, Thatcher's Britain. As the rooms of the National Gallery echo to strange footsteps, and a bomb explodes in distant Brighton, a young painter receives a bizarre commission from his ailing and obsessive uncle. Gradually the past returns to engulf him, freighted by scenes and personalities he has long hoped to forget.
This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant culture.
Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.
Draws together the fields of postcolonial theory and book history. This book illustrates the author's combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa.
Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular.
In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. In between lay a period of intermittent enthusiasm for Victorian writing: a period which saw the refurbishment of Proust's method and a fundamental rethinking of his views.
This study is a collection of theories that lead up to the writing of the historic The Golden Bough.
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