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Performing Libel in the Provinces provides the first book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England. The early modern phenomenon of private libel saw communal scandals creatively couched...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430–1560 is the first study to trace the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature. It begins with the first signs of humanist Greek in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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In 1277, Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil produced a concise work of accessible religious law. This handbook, 'Amudei Golah (Pillars of Exile), began as a list of religious commandments (mitzvot) meant to be recited weekly. It was divided into seven 'pillars', drawn primarily...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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How do books dazzle, disgust, or delight audiences? What entices readers to track characters’ trials and tribulations? Why do stories echo across the ages with their intensity? Books with vibrant, somatic elements prompt us to identify with protagonists who fall...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-15
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Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows that early twentieth century Chinese writers drew upon Russian texts about the socially downtrodden to describe poverty, in a bid to enrich Chinese culture by creating a syncretic new realism. Modern Chinese realist writers turned...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti.Festivals in Latin Literature explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic poetry, as well as historiography. In all of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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The English first edition of Dramatis Personæ was published in May 1864, with the American first edition appearing hard on its heels in the following September. This was the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years--the first, Men and Women,...
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Clarendon Press
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2025-05-13
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This open access book examines how selected African American authors—Colson Whitehead, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, Percival Everett, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sherri L. Smith, and N.K. Jemisin—narrate relationships between emotion, race, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-13
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This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literature and culture of the early modern world. The volume is structured in three sections. Section One looks at the institutional spaces of the Inns themselves. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-12
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In einer Zeit, in der Ökokritik, Nature Writing und Klimawandelliteratur auch im deutschsprachigen Raum an Bedeutung gewinnen, ist der Begriff des Mülls in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Analyse bislang weitgehend unberücksichtigt geblieben. Die vorliegende Studie...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-12
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St Francis and Cultural Memory explores central aspects of English national, spiritual, and broader cultural identity through a detailed yet accessible analysis of a familiar figure: the Franciscan Friar. Covering more than four hundred years from the late fourteenth to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-11
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Wasser erhält Ende des 18. und im Verlauf des 19. Jahrhunderts lokal und global betrachtet den Status eines ‚Superelements‘: Es wird ökonomisch (Dampfmaschine), naturwissenschaftlich (Neptunismus), ästhetisch und kunsttheoretisch (von der Landschaftsmalerei und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-10
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In diesem Buch wird ein neuartiger Ansatz zur Vorhersage der Schwierigkeit lateinischer Texte entwickelt, der die sprachliche Analyse mit Methoden des maschinellen Lernens verbindet. Grundlage der Untersuchung sind lateinische Texte unterschiedlicher...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-08
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Aktuell ist Wald in öffentlichen Diskursen zentral, verbunden mit einer Re-Mythisierung, die zum einen als Effekt einer ökologisch bedingten Krise und zum anderen als Folge einer Primordialität des Digitalen zu lesen ist. Wald ist Anti-Digitalität, weil umfassend...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-08
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Thomas Manns „Der Zauberberg“ (1924) ist ein Meisterwerk der Romankunst und ein Hauptbeitrag der deutschsprachigen Literatur zur internationalen Moderne. Das Handbuch stellt Grundlageninformationen über Entstehung und Form des Romans zusammen, analysiert Themen,...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-08
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-07
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A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for PoetryUpdated edition, with a new poem and a new essay by Ella, on poetry and process'Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of...
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Corsair
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2025-05-01
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What happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-30
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When modernist poets rejected meter at the beginning of the twentieth century, they seemed to reject something at the heart of poetry: sound. Yet meter was only one of the many sound media that poets on either side of 1900 used to structure their poems. As new...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-30
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This book offers a close reading analysis of contemporary Mexican authors whose novels, in both form and content, are reshaped by the forces of globalization and postmodernism. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, the author examines the works of Jorge Volpi, Yuri...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-30
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