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  • Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023

    Edited by Manuel Bragança, Peter Tame ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    This edited volume is a sequel to, and a development of, The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936–2016 (2016). It focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War, namely Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Vatican.Its transnational, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach addresses ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Isotopias

    Places and Spaces in French War Fiction of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    by Peter Tame ...
    Series Book 119 - Modern French Identities
    This monograph is the first book to examine places and spaces in French war fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These places and spaces are presented as literary isotopias, or fictional «worlds», and analysed in a selective corpus of thirty-three novelists and forty-two examples of war fiction. The book identifies and classifies the various types of isotopia that appear in fiction ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    by Robert O. Paxton ...
    What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.From the first violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,” through Mussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not ... Read more

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  • Reading bande dessinee

    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    by Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

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  • Before Auschwitz

    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    by Angela Kershaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World ... Read more

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  • The Real Odessa

    How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

    by Uki Goñi ...
    The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands.As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goni unravels the complex international network that led them ... Read more

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  • Hélène Cixous, Rootprints

    Memory and Life Writing

    by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Hélène Cixous ...
    Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide.Unprecedented in its form and content ... Read more

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  • Marguerite Duras

    Apocalyptic Desires

    by Leslie Hill ...
    Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The LoverLeslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Shadow Empire

    Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War

    by Pierpaolo Barbieri ...
    A revealing look at Nazi involvement in the Spanish Civil War, their economic ambitions, how it came to be, and how they operated.Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco's Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance—a clear instance, it seemed, of like ... Read more

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Andrew Leak ...
    Series Book 9 - Critical Lives
    Jean-Paul Sartre was arguably the most celebrated and written-about intellectual of the twentieth century. He was also one of the most divisive: twenty-five years after his death, his name still provokes revulsion and admiration in equal measure. But who really knew him? From early on, Sartre cultivated publicity and transparency as paradoxical shields of his privacy. Through an impressive range ... Read more

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    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short century” which is the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Camus

    Edited by Edward J. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Albert 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 ... Read more

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