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This book is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of linguistics (semantics/pragmatics), experimental literature and art, with excursions into the environmental humanities. The book proposes a new style of artistic and literary practice which takes the space...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-11
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It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial world, rendering it a pale imitation of the European present. In The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time, Shaj Mathew offers a powerful challenge to this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US and UK experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signalled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book explores how contemporary Australian ecofiction interrogates and challenges settler-colonial conceptions of nature and the nonhuman through a close-reading of nine Australian eco-novels. Fetherston's reading reveals the representation of the nonhuman in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Robert Menasse und Juli Zeh sind politische Autor:innen – aber wie politisch sind ihre Texte? Die Studie versteht die Artikulation des Politischen im Text als Streit um Teilhabe, Ordnung und Repräsentation. Politische Literatur wird nicht über ihre...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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A comprehensive collection of translated sources on the wars and world of Alexander's successors Successors to Alexander the Great brings together—for the first time in a single collection—the essential translated sources for the tumultuous period following the death of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-11-14
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature in English as a case study. It aims to show how readers actively engage with witness literature, serving both as witnesses to the narratives presented...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-13
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"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it."
Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-13
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Martin Heideggers Einfluss reicht bis heute weit über enge disziplinäre Grenzen hinaus in die verschiedenen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie die gesamtgesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit hinein. Gleichzeitig werden er und seine Philosophie, insbesondere seit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-11
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Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten. In den Blick genommen werden die literarischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-10
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The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold, paving the way for Weimar Classicism without walking it himself. Lessing is the ‘pre-classicist’ of German literature, praised and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-07
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This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic, the roar of industry, and the reverberations of newly popular sound technologies, everyday urban din became an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-01
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations ofPersian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-31
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Since Shmuel Eisenstadt published his ground-breaking concept of multiple modernities, there have been various scholarly attempts to free the term modernity from its narrow Eurocentric origins. In line with this, the essays on literature, art and film by Japanese and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-10-31
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How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-31
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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-31
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This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the ambivalent resonance of politics in all its forms—cultural politics, sexual politics, class politics—both in his own time and,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it."
Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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