Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction Av Robert (professor Of Contemporary Literature And Thought Royal Holloway University Of London) Eagle

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<b>Very Short Introductions<b>: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring </b>T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of...

If you read the ''business pages'' of a newspaper or if you listen to the financial news on the television or radio, you will often hear terms such as ''liability'', ''balance sheet'' or ''earnings''....

<p>¿Facts alone are wanted in life,¿ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens¿ <i>Hard Times</i>. Literature is not about facts alone, and ¿ despite two and a half thousand years of arguments ¿ no one can agree on what...