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Writing Under Tyranny is both a study of the birth of Renaissance literature in England and a history of the reign of Henry VIII told through and around the lives of its poets and writers. It shows how political tyranny prompted resistance in and through literature....

A Very Short IntroductionGerman philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. This Very Short Introduction discusses the idea that German philosophy forms one of the most revealing responses to the problems of modernity. Including many significant German philosophers, and other more neglected thinkers, he provides an insight into German...

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Between World Literature and the Western CanonA collection of essays exploring the crucial place of Homer in the cultural        landscape of the twentieth century. It contributes to current debates about the        nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the        relationship between orality and the written...

Terence Cuneo presents a compelling defence of robust realism in ethics. In so doing, he engages with a range of antirealist positions in epistemology such as error theories, expressivist views, and reductionist views of epistemic reasons. The Normative Web is a significant and original contribution to contemporary analytical metaethics....

Volume IV: The Twentieth CenturyThe Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. In this new volume on the last century of empire there are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical `periphery&' of empire, and on all its...