Litteraturvetenskap: från 1900

Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht har besegrat Frankrike. Gestapo letar efter Heinrich Mann och Franz Werfel, efter Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger och otaliga andra tyska författare som har flytt till Frankrike sedan maktövertagandet 1933. Amerikanen...

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"Den mest spännande fackboken som går att hitta i bokhandeln nu [ . . . ] En thriller - i fackbokskostym!" Jenny Lindh, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. Det gick fort: februari 1933 var månaden då allt förändrades i Tyskland. Måndagen den 30 januari ut...

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En ny volym i sviten Franz Kafkas samlade skrifter. Denna volym har fått titeln Eftersom jag älskar dig älskar jag hela världen och innehåller brev som Kafka skrev under perioden juli till december 1920. För översättning och kommentarer står Hans ...

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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King - with a new foreword, ON JOY, by Stephen King. Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practic...

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'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to ever...

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This selection brings together thirty of Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing and reading, the role and reputation of women writers, the art of biography, and the London scene. They are enchanting in their own righ...

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"Den mest spännande fackboken som går att hitta i bokhandeln nu [ . . . ] En thriller - i fackbokskostym!" Jenny Lindh, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. Det gick fort: februari 1933 var månaden då allt förändrades i Tyskland. Måndagen den 30 januari ut...

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A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homema...

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Postmodernismen hör till de senaste decenniernas mest inflytelserika teorier. I När postmodernismen kom till Sverige skildrar Johan Lundberg hur det postmoderna tankegodset slog igenom på svenska kultursidor och i kretsen kring Svenska Akademien p...

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Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker i DN! »Ett musikaliskt flyt, en förförisk språklig rytm som får en att sukta efter mer. Längre penseldrag av berättande kombineras med korta, intensiva stötar. Det är både intellektuellt och punkigt, avancerat...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Michele Roberts Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the stor...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Vi...

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In The Real Middle-Earth, explore the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English te...

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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow ...

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»Ett musikaliskt flyt, en förförisk språklig rytm som får en att sukta efter mer. Längre penseldrag av berättande kombineras med korta, intensiva stötar. Det är både intellektuellt och punkigt, avancerat och naivt.« |SvD »Kate Zambreno skär som me...

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'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. Written for her...

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What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, ea...

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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army ...

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This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, fi...

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Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such r s1he defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of indivi...

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He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new b...

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'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement 'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books 'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker &apos...

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Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's biography and other studies of her, the author's own account of her early life should hold fascination for its unexpected detai...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterleys marriage to ...

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A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw.

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Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of her mother's steady decline spans a period of nearly three years. When her mother first becomes ill, Ernaux takes her in. Soon, it becomes painfully obvious that professional help is needed. Diagn...

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In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored. From Westminster School ...

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A Case of Hysteria reveals how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted their statements. A crucial text in the development of his theories, it is famous for its literary qualities, and the story of 'Dora' and her unhappy family is as dramatic as...

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How four of Europes most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind. Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology, phi...

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