Litteraturvetenskap: från 1900

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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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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»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 m...

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Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will le...

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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 utsågs Adolf...

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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 utsågs Adolf...

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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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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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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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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wif...

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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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Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ? A masterpiece'. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabet...

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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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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how ...

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From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sh...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in anothe...

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A wonderful collection of Robert Frost's writing No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as 'the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by T.S. Eliot, he is the only writer in history to have been award...

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A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. For Gertrude...

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'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** In this remarkable work of auto...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 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...

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Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people alwa...

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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 of relatio...

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Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroes The seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with the launch of the first X-Men comic in 1963, at...

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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, films, ...

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An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passion...

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Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in p...

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