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States that in the context of the dialectical quality of nineteenth-century French culture, caught between an obsession with the new and innovative and a paranoid sense of its own encroaching decay, the twin themes of birth and death open onto a variety of issues - literary, social, historical, artistic.

The legacy of ancient Rome has always constituted an important component of the Russian cultural consciousness. This book analyzes the forms involved in creating the Roman image and explores its functionality within the given poetic system. It explores the background and the stimulus leading up to the composition of a particular poem.

Public debates on the benefits and dangers of mass literacy prompted nineteenth-century British authors to write about illiteracy. This work offers explanations for this lack of interest in illiteracy amongst scholars of literature, and attempts to remedy this neglect. It also explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding.

Devotes to the topic of the play within the play. This title explores the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications.

In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as fuel and expelling texts as clean emissions. This work presents an overview of the novels published under Mirbeau's name.

Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model.