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  • - A Difficult Modernity
    by Robert Gordon
    £27.99

    Short accessible introductions to European literature and culture. The author offers a vivid overview of the century's literature, charting a series of motifs of Italy's 'difficult modernity' - from war to the city, from language to geography, from marginal groups to avant-garde movements - through a wide array of writers and texts.

  • - Personal Histories
    by Emma Wilson
    £25.99

    This text on French cinema analyses the most widely viewed and studied works of the period, together with critical previews of some of the most recent French films as well as documentaries and home-movies.

  • by Victoria Best
    £29.99

    This guide provides an overview of the key literary movements in 20th century French literature and the major writers of prose, poetry and drama, from great novelists such as Proust, to great thinkers like Sartre, by way of controversial figures such as Genet, Beckett and Marguerite Duras.

  • - Introduction to Seventeenth-century Spanish Literature
    by Jeremy Robbins
    £25.99

    An introduction to Spanish Baroque literature and culture, this text considers works by major Spanish novelists, dramatists, poets and painters. It covers issues such as honour and identity, the influence of the court, social and literary institutions, and the place of women in cultural life.

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