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This book offers a unique interdisciplinary examination of how youth subcultures have been articulated and constructed in selected fiction from the post-war period to the twenty-first century. It provides a theoretical underpinning for the analysis of subcultures and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-30
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This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley’s contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context. In his biographies of Milton,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-29
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Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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This open access book contributes to the mobility humanities from the perspective of postcolonial literary mobilities and aims at enhancing dialogue between mobilities research and postcolonial literary studies. The study produces new perspectives on Afroeuropean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-29
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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-29
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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
Parution :
2025-04-28
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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
Parution :
2025-04-28
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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
Parution :
2025-04-26
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Seit zwanzig Jahren setzt die Forschung zu Leben, Werk und Wirken von Jeremias Gotthelf neue Akzente. Sie erkundet die innovative Poetik seiner volkspädagogischen Erzählungen als Alternative zu gängigen Traditionen realistischen Erzählens, und sie ersetzt das Bild des...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-25
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How does Indian fiction imagine urban transformation? India's cities were once maligned as places of economic stasis and deprivation but in the era of the so-called New India (2000-present) centres like Delhi and Mumbai have been recast as 'engines of economic growth'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-24
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How does Indian fiction imagine urban transformation? India's cities were once maligned as places of economic stasis and deprivation but in the era of the so-called New India (2000-present) centres like Delhi and Mumbai have been recast as 'engines of economic growth'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-24
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The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature: Narratives of Sexuality and Power traces the evolution of the waltz from a taboo dance in the early nineteenth century to a gracefully nostalgic practice that must be preserved by the century's end. While Sabrina Gilchrist...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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Erstmals liegt mit dem Hermann Hesse-Handbuch ein umfassend informierendes Nachschlagewerk zu diesem faszinierenden Autor vor. Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) war und ist ein literarisches Phänomen eigener Ordnung. Aus dem Geist der Spätromantik und des lyrischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-23
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Der Literaturnobelpreisträger von 1929: Thomas Mann gehört zu den produktivsten, wichtigsten und wirkungsreichsten deutschsprachigen Autoren der Moderne. Seine Romane, Erzählungen, Essays, Briefe und Tagebücher reflektieren und prägen die erste Hälfte des 20....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-23
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This book tells the story of the growth of picturegoing as a popular habit between 1800 and 1914. Encouraged by urbanisation and changes in transportation, education, and leisure patterns, the regular and widespread provision of exhibitions and shows became a defining...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Akiva the “Holy of Holies” among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050–1215 is about how sin and atonement function as an impetus for textual production and formal, linguistic, and intellectual creativity. It focuses on the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, a time in which various social and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-23
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This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic of capitalist economics and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-22
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This book explores liminal spaces and states in New York City literature after 2000. The concept of “liminality” refers to a transitional state where people, places, or ideas exist between two clearly defined conditions. In this ambiguous “in-between...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-16
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This book studies the works of Ann Rule, aiming to shed light on her literary career as a largely uncelebrated True Crime writer, in addition to works by other lesser-known female True Crime writers including Alia Trabucco Zerán, Katherine Ellison and Caitlin...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-15
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This book takes a close look at crime fiction set in the interwar period and during the reign of terror of the Nazi regime. Kniesche analyzes historical crime fiction depicting Weimar and Nazi Germany with specific questions in mind: what does the text try to accomplish...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-12
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