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This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume is to analyse the panorama of contemporary literary fiction in Portuguese under the prism of the economization of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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What makes fiction recognizable as fiction? Texts are shaped by their material print, but this book argues that they can also be made in response to it: that the needs of the magazine in the nineteenth century spurred writers to create hybrid, entangled texts. Using...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-25
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This book offers a detailed analysis of China’s original view of literature and art theory and critical practice from the ancient to the modern period, providing views on dancing, image making, the circulation of artifacts, critical theory, creative writing, art design,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-21
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Dieses Handbuch stellt das erste Nachschlagewerk zur Weltliteratin Friederike Mayröcker dar, die in ihrer enormen Produktivität ein nahezu unüberschaubares Œuvre vorgelegt hat. Ihr oft als komplex charakterisiertes Werk wird anhand von Einzeldarstellungen der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-19
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Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden. Friedrich Schleiermachers Fragment gebliebenes Interpretationssystem wird...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-11-19
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This is the first literary study on the New Woman's interaction with modern speed culture through use of the typewriter and the bicycle. These technologies of speed are among the earliest to be associated with middle-class women, exposing them to the discipline of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-18
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Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-16
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This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the contributions of Milton and his writings to demonstrate how major social movements appropriated him in ways that “reinvent”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-16
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature. In addition to a focused exploration of the individual stories and themes that make up...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-14
Collection :
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-14
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatness and gain lasting fame.
In thisVery Short Introduction,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-13
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This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange. Emergent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-12
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über neue und neueste Literatur aus Ex-Jugoslawien, Bulgarien, Albanien und Griechenland und stellt Romane (und Kurzgeschichten) folgender Autor*innen vor: David Albahari, Lindita Arapi, Lana Bastašic, Rumena Bužarovska, Artrit Bytyçi,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-11-11
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While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-10
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Four years on from George Floyd’s murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevant—whether in performance, in the classroom, or in scholarship—to the pressing issues of social and climate justice. This question, however, is accompanied by the acute and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-09
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Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for representing and re-thinking literacy itself. This...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-06
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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-06
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-06
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-05
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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos.In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-05
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