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José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error (2016)
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Sabine, M. (2016). José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error. (1). Cambridge: Legenda

Although best known internationally for his ‘allegorical’ novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaimed for his earlier, richly poetic ‘historical’ novels. This new study of five of these works focuses... Read More about José Saramago: history, utopia, and the necessity of error.

The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force (2016)
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Zoric, V. (2016). The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association

The Rhetoric of Exile explores the rhetorical construction of force in indirect exile and in literary responses to it. Between banishment, a compulsory exile, and expatriation, a voluntary one, many legal systems have allowed for a third model. Such... Read More about The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force.

Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination (2016)
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Norris, D. (2016). Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559810

Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of th... Read More about Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination.

On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain (2016)
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Andrews, J., Noble Wood, O., & Roe, J. (Eds.). (2016). On Art and Painting: Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain. Cardiff: University of Wales Press

This is a collection of essays on the Italo-Spanish painter and art theorist, Vicente Carducho's Dialogues on Painting (1633), covering a range of aspects of his work and its significance for Spanish painting in the seventeenth century.