A comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender, myth and history, postcolonialism and urban culture.

A comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender, myth and history, postcolonialism and urban culture.

This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts.

Provides students and readers with an introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. This book offers comprehensive coverage of a range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the British writing.

Provides students and readers with an introduction to contemporary modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA, this selection offers a vision of late-Twentieth-century poetic achievement: international, politically- and socially-engaged, and radical in imaginative vision and practice.

Duel text translations of twenty-five Polish poets all under 45. Practically of the work in this selection was written in the post-communist period, but in cultural historical terms it reflects the evolution of a sensibility that began to emerge in the mid-1980s, when Polish poetry was being realisned contemtiously with the newly visible traditions of European and American writing,

This study of Dickens touches on all the major fiction. It is organised thematically with the order in which the several themes are examined reflecting the progress of Dickens' career. Every phase of Dickens' development is discussed, while particular attention is paid to those writings which fall into the category of first person narrative. It is through the use of the first person in novels, ...

Paintings 1957 2008 Catalogue Raisonn. Ilya Kabakov is currently one of the worlds most important and influential artists from the former Soviet Union. Following the publication of a two-volume catalogue raisonn of Kabakovs installations in 2003, a complete overview of Kabakovs paintings is now being made available for the first time. The focus of this two volume catalogue raisonn in a slipcase ..

An introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. Fictional works are discussed in relation to different historical, theoretical and political issues, including postmodernism, postcolonialism, ethnicity, gender and genre.

'Sculpture is a part of the space around it'. This statement by Katarzyna Kobro reflects the author's sense of how he wants the poetic text to relate to the languages that surround it.