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The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional and ethical impact of eight novels written between 1864 and 2018, indicating how Freud’s provisional ideas in psychology are now being placed on an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-16
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Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women’s Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women’s literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-15
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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 :
2025-01-12
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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 :
2025-01-12
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This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-10
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This book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin. It addresses Larkin's idea of space and place, both private and public, and reflects upon his early fictional works as well as poems. To do so,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-10
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Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression uncovers a forgotten side of modernism: the literature of unemployment and poverty in the 1930s, particularly fiction and poetry about people starving on the street or struggling on welfare, people who often...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-09
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This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to “All-in-Allness”. Its chapters unfold some of the ethical and intellectual responsibilities philosophy and rhetoric share, their commitments toward literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-07
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Der Forschungsgegenstand des vorliegenden Buchs ist die Rezeptionsgeschichte der neuen chinesischen Dichtung (1917–1949) seit ihrer Entstehung. Am Beispiel der ausgewählten Dichter – Hu Shi, Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, Li Jinfa, He Qifang, Ai Qing und Mu Dan – wird die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-07
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«This edition is the fruit of Professor Matsumoto’s lifelong devotion to the study of the story of Troy in the Middle Ages, beginning with his edition of the major alliterative poem The Destruction of Troy by John Clerk. As well as articles on the subject, Professor...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-03
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L’essere umano ha da sempre avvertito la necessità della narrazione come elemento di riflessione e crescita e, nel tempo, la ha modellata in modo da rappresentare ciò di cui sentiva il bisogno. Oggi la narrazione passa attraverso diversi media e, allo stesso tempo,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-02
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-02
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Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy, by 1900 the microscope rivaled the railway and telegraph as an emblem of modernity and enjoyed an astonishing diversity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-01
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Anna-Lena Demi legt in diesem Buch ein Lehr- und Lernarrangement für einen inklusiven und symmedialen Literaturunterricht (ISLU) in der Grundschule vor, welches die Bereiche Inklusion, Literaturunterricht und Mediendidaktik integriert. Im Möglichkeitsraum...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-31
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How can Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) help us understand poetry? Against John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetic utterances as parasitical, Philip Mills explores how contemporary poetics broadens the aims and scope of OLP. Through the analysis of French...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-31
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Das Einhorn, das Salomonische Urteil oder die Rahmenerzählung von 1001 Nacht sind nur wenige Beispiele für zahlreiche Themen und Motive, die seit dem 12. Jahrhundert aus dem indischen Raum, oft veredelt durch die persisch-arabische Erzählkunst, gen Westen wanderten und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-30
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In ihren sieben Vorträgen setzt sich die Autorin, die als eine der wichtigsten Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen Chinas gilt, mit Thesen des berühmten Gelehrten Wang Guowei über die klassischen Ci-Gedichte (Lieddichtung) Chinas kritisch auseinander und erläutert ihr...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-30
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Frans Hals is hailed as one of the three greatest painters of the Dutch seventeenth century along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. Of all seventeenth-century Dutch painters,Frans Hals is also the most controversial in as far as the exact scope of his oeuvre is concerned....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-28
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This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation. They were effectually substitutes for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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“‘Who is … the Proust of the Paphuans?’, Saul Bellow infamously inquired, as if this vast expanse were too small, scattered and backward to deserve consideration. In response to this challenge, Pacific Gateways seeks to define a new (if provisional) canon. This diverse,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
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