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  • This Thing Called Literature
    Andrew Bennett / Nicholas Royle
    Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting subject to study. This essential guide to the study of literature is as an eloquent celebration of the value and pleasure of reading. ...
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    38,41 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music and literature, as well as the role of universities in society.Blending elements of memoir and cultural commentary, Royle create...
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    30,46 €

  • An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
    Andrew Bennett / Nicholas Royle
    Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature. ...
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    44,81 €

  • The Dummy
    Nicholas Royle
    'An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . .' - Sigmund FreudNicholas Royle’s stories are 'immaculately sinister', according to Olivia Laing in the Times Literary Supplement, while Phil Baker, in the Sunday Times, described Royle as 'a real craftsman of disquiet'.In his third collection, The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories, Royle ...
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    22,63 €

  • Hélène Cixous
    Nicholas Royle
    This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Hélène Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis, creative writing, realism, sexual differences, laughter, secrets, the ’Mother unconscious’, drawing, painting, life writing, telephones, non-human animals, telepathy and the ’art of...
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    35,63 €

  • First Novel
    Nicholas Royle
    Paul Kinder a novelist with one forgotten book to his name teaches creative writing in a university in the north-west of England. Either he’s researching his second breakthrough novel or he’s killing time having sex in cars.Either eternal life exists or it doesn’t. Either you’ll laugh or you’ll cry.Or maybe both. ...
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    22,45 €

  • The Best British Short Stories 2013. Edited by Nicholas Royle
    Nicholas Royle
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, 'The Best British Short Stories 2013' reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own short story collections. They appeared online at '3:AM Magazine', 'Fleeting' and e...
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    14,63 €

  • The Best British Short Stories 2012
    Nicholas Royle
    The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, 'The Best British Short Stories 2012' reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. These stories first appeared in magazines from 'Ambit' to 'Granta', in anthologies across various genres from publishers big and small, and in authors’ own short story collections. They were broadcast on ...
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    13,67 €

  • The Best British Short Stories 2011
    Nicholas Royle
    Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor’s brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the...
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    13,67 €

  • How to Read Shakespeare
    Nicholas Royle
    Nicholas Royle conveys the richness and complexity of Shakespeare's work by focusing, above all, on how to read and enjoy short passages and interpret specific words from the plays and poems themselves. Discussing poetry and the question of reading, to the nature of memory and forgetting, to the power of love, Royle covers many of Shakespeare's most prevalent themes. At...
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    14,09 €

  • Jacques Derrida
    Nicholas Royle
    With a special focus on Derrida’s relevance for literary and cultural studies, this text offers invaluable advice on reading Derrida’s texts and guidance on the vast range of criticism responses to his work. ...
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    49,09 €

  • The uncanny
    Nicholas Royle
    This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud’s extraordinary essay of 1919, ’The Uncanny’ (Das Unheimliche).As a ghostly feeling and concept, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to ...
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    29,07 €

  • Deconstructions
    Nicholas Royle
    Deconstructions is a user’s guide to deconstruction across a range of topics and discourses. Chapter topics range from the obvious (feminism, post-colonialism, and technology) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). Yet each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions. The book has been put together to demonstrate the multi...
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    66,60 €