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swoon/swu?n/verb1. faint, especially from extreme emotion. 'The girl swooned and had to lie down'2. be overcome with adoration, or other strong emotion. 'She was swooning over Him'Etymology traces to the Old English word 'geswogen', meaning 'overcome'On the eve of her...
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Corsair
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2026-03-05
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'I marvel at Ada Limón's ability to weave on the page her playfulness and wisdom. Her lyricism dances. This is the poetry of a tender and compassionate human' Joan Baez'Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón's...
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Corsair
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2026-03-05
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This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love affair in the same...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-04
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Offers a reader-friendly guide to reading, understanding, and appreciating Pope today Alexander Pope’s words echo across centuries, woven into the fabric of everyday English. Phrases such as “to err is human” and “hope springs eternal” have long since left the pages of...
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Wiley
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2026-03-03
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The Life of the Author
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The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from Lucretius to Bergson, provides a common intellectual foundation...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-03-02
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This is the first in-depth study of the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists. Whereas previous scholarship has shown a strong bias towards male writers, especially Charles Dickens, this book innovatively brings woman-authored novels centre...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...'
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'
Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic novel was only in its third or...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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This work is a study of current migration narratives within the disciplines of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Digital Humanities. Global culture, the proliferation and pervasiveness of telecommunications technologies and new media, particularly the Internet,...
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Mimesis International
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2026-02-25
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'Some verses flow on out of men
like headstreams course through a canal.
The same holds true for mine, old pal-
though I can't say they're worth a lick,
they still pour out of me real quick,
like sheep escapin' a corral.'
José Hernández's long narrative poems The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-25
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This book explores a long-standing of literary journalism form written in Portuguese and Spanish, around the Atlantic triangle of Africa, Latin America and Europe: the crónica. World literary journalism provides audiences and researchers with a wide scope of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-23
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2025 erscheint der 64. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs.
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-02-23
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This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels published between 2006 and 2024. The analysis seeks to situate this author’s crime works in relation to the genre more broadly. Additionally, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-02-23
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Die Studie nimmt ihren Ausgang in der zunehmenden Relevanz, die dem Phänomen des Autismus als Metapher der gesellschaftlichen Selbstbeschreibung in den westlichen Industrienationen zugeschrieben wird. Susan Sontag hat auf die problematische Praxis hingewiesen, ein...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This is the first in-depth study of the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists. Whereas previous scholarship has shown a strong bias towards male writers, especially Charles Dickens, this book innovatively brings woman-authored novels centre...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'
Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic novel was only in its third or...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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'Some verses flow on out of men
like headstreams course through a canal.
The same holds true for mine, old pal-
though I can't say they're worth a lick,
they still pour out of me real quick,
like sheep escapin' a corral.'
José Hernández's long narrative poems The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This newly updated edition of John Day’s The Parliament of Bees includes both the 1641 quarto and also a complete transcription of the earlier manuscript of the text. The editions of both manuscript and quarto feature modern spelling and punctuation,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-19
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The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major series that charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries of the late twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-18
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