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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Camus Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisAlbert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work nevertheless attracted hostility as well as acclaim and he was increasingly drawn into bitter political controversies, especially the issue of France's place and role in the country of his birth, Algeria. Most recently, postcolonial studies have identified in his writings a set of preoccupations ripe for revisitation. Situating Camus in his cultural and historical context, this 2007 Companion explores his best-selling novels, his ambiguous engagement with philosophy, his theatre, his increasingly high-profile work as a journalist and his reflection on ethical and political questions that continue to concern readers today.Trade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Camus is a fine collection of essays, covering many facets of its subject, as well as providing good background, an excellent chronology of Camus's life an times, and a thorough guide to further reading.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Edward J. Hughes; Part I. Biography and Influences: 1. Camus: a life lived in critical times Ieme van der Poel; 2. Situating Camus: the formative influences Toby Garfitt; 3. Autobiographical soundings in L'Envers et l'Endroit Edward J. Hughes; Part II. Themes, Preoccupations and Genres: 4. Rethinking the absurd: Le Mythe de Sisyphe David Carroll; 5. Camus and the theatre Christine Margerrison; 6. Camus the journalist Jeanyves Guerin; 7. Camus and social justice Martin Crowley; 8. Violence and ethics in Camus Colin Davis; 9. Camus and Sartre: the great quarrel Charles Forsdick; 10. Portraits of women, visions of Algeria Danielle Marx-Scouras; Part III. Texts and Contexts: 11. From Noces to L'Etranger Peter Dunwoodie; 12. Layers of meaning in La Peste Margaret E. Gray; 13. Withheld identity in La Chute David Ellison; 14. Le Premier Homme and the literature of loss Debra Kelly; Postface Edward J. Hughes; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment Theology Aesthetics and the Novel 31 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press New Essays on Seize the Day
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Cambridge University Press Charlotte Bront and Victorian Psychology 7 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Sensibility Race Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel 18 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Reading Daughters Fictions 17091834 Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth 19 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press Martial Select Epigrams Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisDespite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The epigrams included in the selection are organised under various heads, e.g. Martial and poetry, sexual mores, satirical pieces. A very full introduction deals with such topics as the prejudices and predilections of his audience which conditioned Martial's choice of subject matter, Martial's language, the structure and style of the epigrams, the epigrammatic tradition and Martial's creative engagement with it. The detailed commentary is suitable for use with undergraduates and is distinguished by its focus on social history as well as literary interpretation.Trade Review'The commentary is meticulous, clear in its style and organization and exceptionally well informed … we could not hope for a better account of martial in his cultural, historical and literary context. As martial approaches his bimillenium, uninhibited once more, Watson & Watson will be the standard introduction.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Select epigrams; 1. Martial and poetry; 2. Poet and patron; 3. Martial and the city of Rome; 4. Women; 5. Sexual mores; 6. Satirical epigrams; 7. Epideictic epigrams; 8. Funerary epigrams; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain 101 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 101
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Cambridge University Press Poetry as Performance
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Cambridge University Press Paul Morel
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Cambridge University Press Melvilles City
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Cambridge University Press Ancestry and Narrative in NineteenthCentury British Literature Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy 18 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Lawrence and Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Henry James Last Romance
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Cambridge University Press History and the Early English Novel Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe 33 Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Thought Series Number 33
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Cambridge University Press Hemingway The Postwar Years The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels 96 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 96
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Cambridge University Press Rereading Walter Pater 9 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Conrad in Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Politics of the Family
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Cambridge University Press The Journals of George Eliot
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Renovations of the Novel Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation 15 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press D. H. Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press British Imperial Literature 18701940
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Cambridge University Press Petronius the Poet
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Cambridge University Press Disease Desire and the Body in Victorian Womens Popular Novels 11 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press NineteenthCentury American Fiction on Screen
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to the NineteenthCentury American Novel
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Cambridge University Press The Annals of Tacitus Volume 2 Annals 1.5581 and Annals 2
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Updike Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and the Fate of Individuality
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney
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Cambridge University Press Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine
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Cambridge University Press Commerce Morality and the EighteenthCentury Novel
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Cambridge University Press Imagined Empires Incas Aztecs and the New World of American Literature 17711876 121 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 121
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Cambridge University Press Epistolary Fiction in Europe 15001850
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Cambridge University Press Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins 17 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press James Joyce and the Difference of Language
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and English Modernism 19001930
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press After Dickens Reading Adaptation and Performance 20 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 20
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Poststructuralism
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Cambridge University Press Fiction and Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press Dickens Novel Reading and the Victorian Popular Theatre 19 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question 21 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography and Black Identity Politics
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Cambridge University Press Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
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