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An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Bringing to view a selection of Butler's unpublished writings and drawings, this book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with horses and other...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-29
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-29
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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 :
2025-01-29
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This study examines the representation of home spaces in three twenty-first-century Nigerian novels written in English, applying various spatial theories to analyse their portrayal. These contemporary novels, which center on family life, are set in different regions of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-29
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This monograph explores the work of Dion Fortune, one of the most prolific British occult authors of the interwar period, and her claim that her books had an initiatory quality. She held that reading her books and meditating on their contents could produce a lasting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while his moral judgements are often subtly challenging. He is an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-28
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Gérard Genette zufolge ist die literaturtheoretische Bestimmung des Titels „problematischer als bei den anderen Elementen des Paratextes“. Der Band setzt an dieser Beobachtung an und macht sie für die Untersuchung literarischer Mehrdeutigkeit produktiv. Die Beiträge...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-27
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This study endeavours to understand the construction and perception of minority languages in India from the colonial era to the contemporary period. Through illustrative examples, it seeks to delineate the evolution of orality and writing, the concept of vernacular, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-23
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This book is the first of its genre to explore the use of Arabizi, the Romanized script of the Arabic language that is used online or in chat apps, in the Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) classroom. It fills a noticeable, and glaring, gap in teaching a non-Romanized...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-01-23
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Eine spannende Zeitreise rund um den Planeten Was hat der Siebenjährige Krieg mit der Unabhängigkeit der USA zu tun, und warum studierten die Japaner einst »Hollandkunde«? Was passierte in der Schlacht von Gallipoli, die für die Australier die Schrecken des Ersten...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2025-01-23
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Für Dummies
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The Victorian Mind's Eye: Reading Literature in an Age of Illustration
The Victorians lived in an age of illustration. In a matter of decades, words and images had become enmeshed and entangled, printed alongside each other in a spectacular array of printed forms.The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature considers how the avalanche of printed numbers characterizing the period affected its literature. It looks at the influence of a variety of cultural and historical movements, such as the rise of statistics and of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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2024 erscheint der 63. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u.a. Joseph A. Kruses Auseinandersetzung mit Heinrich Heines Poetisierungen zweier Familienmitglieder. Eckart Pastor, Davina Beck sowie Doris Fouquet-Plümacher untersuchen die intertextuellen Bezüge von...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-22
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts. While the assumption that our minds are embodied underlies most approaches in cognitive stylistics (and beyond), a systematic account of the linguistic patterns through which the body may...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-22
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, and the Book of the Duchess reveals the ways in which Chaucer...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-20
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This book aims to create a new space for the analysis of female experience in the Italian diaspora through a selected sample of representative writers in contemporary Anglophone literature. In addition, it presents memoir writing as a fertile ground for literary and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-20
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This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum over the past decade. The book elevates a chorus of voices from domestic and international intellectuals, artists,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-20
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This book offers an in-depth discussion of the evolution of modernist poetry in Taiwan, with a focus on periods preceding and following World War II, and contextualizes the movement within the broader frameworks of Western, Japanese, and Chinese modernism. Through a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-17
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-17
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