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Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so:
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In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character
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Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the m
Five Faces of Exile
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Kitsch and Art
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