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Condemned to repetition? The rise, fall, and reprise of Soviet-Russian military interventionism, 1973-1996
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ISBN: 0262024578 Year: 1999 Volume: *4 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT

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Keats, narrative and audience: the posthumous life of writing
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ISBN: 0521445655 Year: 1994 Volume: 6 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Romantic poets and the culture of posterity
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ISBN: 0521641446 051105159X 1280153644 0511309538 0511484100 0511149239 0511117302 1107111269 0511007396 9780511007392 0511036353 9780511036354 9780511149238 9780511051593 9780511117305 9780521641449 9780511484100 9780521026895 052102689X 9781107111264 9781280153648 9780511309533 Year: 1999 Volume: 35 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the poetry and poetics of the Romantic period. He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience, engaging with issues such as the commercialization of poetry, the gendering of the canon, and the construction of poetic identity. Bennett goes on to discuss the strangely compelling effects which this reception theory produces in the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, who have come to embody, for posterity, the figure of the Romantic poet.


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William Wordsworth in context
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ISBN: 9781107028418 9781139236188 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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ISBN: 0415281644 0415281636 9780415281638 9780415281645 9780203003312 9781134461295 9781134461332 9781134461349 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxon Routledge

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Ignorance
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ISBN: 178170242X 1847792693 9781781702420 9781847792693 0719074878 9780719074875 1847796729 0719097436 Year: 2009 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing. From Wordsworth and Keats to George Eliot and Charles Dickens, from Henry James to Joseph Conrad, from Elizabeth Bowen to Philip Roth and Seamus Heaney, writers have been fascinated and compelled by the question of ignorance, inclu

Katherine Mansfield
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ISBN: 0746309082 1786942437 9781786942432 9780746310168 9780746309087 0746310161 0582010497 Year: 2003 Publisher: Tavistock Northcote House Publishers

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This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories informed by recent biographical, critical and editorial work on her life and on her stories, letters and notebooks. The study focuses on the question of the connection between life and writing in Mansfield's work: it explores her engagements with issues of personal identity and elaborates her theory and practice of a poetics of impersonation whereby the identity of the author is merged with those of her characters. Bennett argues that Mansfield's multiple and unstable identities and identifications are bound up with issues of colonialism, nationality, gender, and sexuality, and that they may be said to be embedded within the very texture of her prose. Mansfield's impersonations, in their engagement with a 'queer' aesthetics, with strangeness and surprise, with hatred, with an unsettling of personal identity and with the uncertainties of national and sexual identification, constitute the risk and the achievement of Katherine Mansfield's writing.


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William Wordsworth in context
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ISBN: 1316236048 1316254968 1108412823 1316253066 131624928X 1316251179 1316247384 1316234150 1139236180 1107028418 1316245497 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own transformation from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment. The poet of the 'egotistical sublime' who wrote the pioneering autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude, and whose work is remarkable for its investigation of personal impressions, memories and experiences, is also the poet who is critically engaged with the cultural and political developments of his era. William Wordsworth in Context presents thirty-five concise chapters on contexts crucial for an understanding and appreciation of this leading Romantic poet. It focuses on his life, circle, and composition; on his reception and influence; on the significance of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literary contexts; and on the historical, political, scientific and philosophical issues that helped to shape Wordsworth's poetry and prose.


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Suicide century : literature and suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace
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ISBN: 1108304699 1108284132 1108307698 110841804X 1108406254 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, England ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature responds to the act and idea as an increasingly normalised but incessantly baffling phenomenon. Discussing works by a number of major authors from the long twentieth century, the book explores the way that suicide makes and unmakes subjects, assumes and disrupts meaning, induces and resists empathy, and insists on and makes inconceivable our understanding of ourselves and of others.

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