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This expanded edition of Postwar Polish Poetry (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stre
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Can the study of folklore survive brutal wars and nationalized misappropriations? Does folklore make sense in an age of fearsome technology? These are two of several questions this book addresses with
Psychologists, literary scholars, and historians in Germany and the US examine masculinity and masculine identity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present. They draw from a
This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies.
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