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This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia. It provides readings of Southeast Asian literatures in a comparative context,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-23
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This book brings together the complete letters of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, the first wife of Eric Blair, the man we know as George Orwell. Although they married in 1936 and spent the next nine years together, Eileen’s extensive influence on Orwell’s work is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-23
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Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-22
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Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of queer subjectivity—an aesthetic, affective, and epistemological impasse. Through provocative readings of literature, film, music, and performance, the contributors expose...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Reiseliteratur erfährt im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue gesellschaftliche Relevanz, gibt es doch eine Vielzahl an Blogs, Vlogs oder Instagram-Posts zum Thema Reise. Besonders hervor treten dabei weiblich markierte Erzählungen, die vom Alleinreisen als Frau künden und in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Gender in Asian Shakespeare: Towards Intercultural Feminism is the first full-length study of gender in East and Southeast Asian productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Resituating gender theory within new performance contexts, forms and communities, this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-21
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic.The introduction provides a broad overview of the historical and mythographical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-20
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-20
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This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to the severe economic downturn in the cotton trade in Lancashire and elsewhere precipitated by the Union blockade of Confederate exports during the American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-19
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This book bridges theological, historical, and sociocultural perspectives to 35 explore the lives and church experiences of women in Femmes Pour Christ in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon. Using a practical theological method, diakonia theories, and African...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. Beginning with early modern European disease ecologies but informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological concerns, The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-18
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It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial world, rendering it a pale imitation of the European present. In The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time, Shaj Mathew offers a powerful challenge to this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US and UK experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signalled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book explores how contemporary Australian ecofiction interrogates and challenges settler-colonial conceptions of nature and the nonhuman through a close-reading of nine Australian eco-novels. Fetherston's reading reveals the representation of the nonhuman in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Robert Menasse und Juli Zeh sind politische Autor:innen – aber wie politisch sind ihre Texte? Die Studie versteht die Artikulation des Politischen im Text als Streit um Teilhabe, Ordnung und Repräsentation. Politische Literatur wird nicht über ihre...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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A comprehensive collection of translated sources on the wars and world of Alexander's successors Successors to Alexander the Great brings together—for the first time in a single collection—the essential translated sources for the tumultuous period following the death of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-11-14
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature in English as a case study. It aims to show how readers actively engage with witness literature, serving both as witnesses to the narratives presented...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-13
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