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The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis brings together for the first time all of the published writings of Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), a major contributor to literary modernism and one of the most important British painters of the first half of the twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life.Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and—most disturbingly of all for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.Of death the muse is death the muse of HellIs death the muse of Heaven I don't knowO...
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Corsair
Parution :
2025-02-11
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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
Parution :
2025-02-10
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This book investigates the practice of mixing writing systems while composing a literary text. Through assessment of highly distinct writing contexts, it explores how the choice of script, in its own right, plays a fascinating role as a prominent narrative feature. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-10
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Dies ist ein Buch im Open Access. - Der eigene Tod ist nicht zu bewältigen. Die Textsorte ‚Erzählung‘ ermöglicht aufgrund ihrer Eigenschaften jedoch die Bewältigung von Erfahrungen, die dem Tod ähneln sollen. Fiktionalem und faktualem Erzählen kommen dabei qua...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-08
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-08
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-08
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This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, with a focus on a specific breed of dog: the greyhound. It combines literary criticism, cultural history and the rapidly expanding field of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-07
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Reading Quintiliantakes Quintilian's Institutio oratoriaas a coherent literary work: one worth reading in full. This book examines how didactic authority is created and how readers are guided through the Institutiothanks to an overarching framework that holds it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-05
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Dieses Buch untersucht die Begriffe „Ich“, „Masse“ und „Mensch“ in der lyrischen Produktion des expressionistischen Jahrzehnts. Die detaillierte Analyse der Einzelwerke von Jakob van Hoddis, Alfred Lichtenstein, René Schickele, Georg Heym, Alfred Wolfenstein, Paul...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-04
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This book explores the «postcolonial modern» across South Asian literatures and cultures, while demonstrating that postcoloniality is an ongoing lived experience and that modernity has always been a many-voiced historical reality. It contends that our realities and our...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-04
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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Accessible to general readers and to established scholars...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-02
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This book examines the lyric poetry of the late modernist W. S. Graham. By listening closely to his body of work, it exposes the capacity of a poem to describe itself being made in the mind of a reader. The study locates an idea of lyric self-consciousness not...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-31
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This book is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field of literary neurodiversity studies, a growing approach to literary criticism that has emerged in the past decade. Its three parts are designed to: 1) introduce readers both to the general concept of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-31
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This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-31
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This book offers the first extensive investigation of Italian crime fiction in the period between 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, and 1941, when the famous Mondadori series ‘I libri gialli’, which had published crime novels since 1929, was suppressed by the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-30
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Reading Quintiliantakes Quintilian's Institutio oratoriaas a coherent literary work: one worth reading in full. This book examines how didactic authority is created and how readers are guided through the Institutiothanks to an overarching framework that holds it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-30
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