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Useful Objects examines the history of American museums during the nineteenth century through the eyes of visitors, writers, and collectors. Museums of this period included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to antiquarian artifacts and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-18
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This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-26
Collection :
Global Masculinities
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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-04
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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-05-04
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The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures, as they are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-09
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The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures, as they are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-09
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After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American literature may be much more than literature written by authors who identify as "Black". What is African American...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-12-21
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Transgression and Redemption in American Fiction is a critical study of classic American novels. Ferraro returns to Hawthorne's closet of secreted sin to reveal The Scarlet Letter as a deviously psychological turn on the ancient Meditererranean Catholic folk tales of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-03
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Transgression and Redemption in American Fiction is a critical study of classic American novels. Ferraro returns to Hawthorne's closet of secreted sin to reveal The Scarlet Letter as a deviously psychological turn on the ancient Meditererranean Catholic folk tales of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-03
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This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas – ideas that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-21
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There was a time when the word "modern" would not have appeared in folklore scholarship in general and in proverb studies in particular. After all, folklorists and cultural historians were primarily interested in traditional materials with some consideration also being...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Die vorliegende Studie befaßt sich mit Goethes Werk und Wirken in Weimar und fragt nach der Relevanz, die der Freimaurerei für eine Deutung der darin enthaltenen Lebensspuren zukommt. Wie umfassend Goethe bestrebt war, seine Lebenswelt mit einem dichten System von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-26
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Kurt Vonnegut: Myth and Science in the Postmodern World attempts to understand, in Vonnegut’s novels, how Darwin’s theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-10
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Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Anti-Helden stellen modellhaft die Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen, oft problematischen Lebenssituation im sozialen Aspekt des Außenseitertums dar. Mit individuellen menschlichen Schwächen bieten solche Figuren Einblicke in Gedanken, Handlungsmotive und Phantasien....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 1801 and 1802do not entirely cohere with the numerous relative time references in the novel if, as scholarship contends, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-22
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This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in KateChopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in thelate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of hernovels and numerous short stories, Kate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-13
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