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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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Obwohl eines der prominentesten Themen literarischer Texte, fand das Reisen in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit wenig Beachtung. Stärker in den Blick rückte es erst die sozialgeschichtlich orientierte Reiseliteraturforschung der 1980er Jahre, die sich allerdings vor...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-04
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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 :
2024-11-01
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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
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2024-10-31
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In diesem Buch werden Figuren und Figurenkonstellationen in einem Korpus mittelhochdeutscher Artusromane mit computergestützten Methoden, insbesondere der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse, untersucht. Die Analysen konzentrieren sich auf Hartmanns von Aue ‚Erec‘ und ‚Iwein‘...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-31
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This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy’s novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and world-systems analyses with a cultural materialist approach, the study offers unparalleled coverage of global links in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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This book offers the first full-length study of Henry James's relationship with, and literary treatment of, New York. It shows how the city, whether observed or reimagined, always remained an essential component of James's identity. New York compelled James to confront...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Trotz der Dominanz des Audiovisuellen in unserer Zeit sind das Bilderbuch und das illustrierte (Kinder-)Buch zu einer ungeahnten künstlerischen Höhe gelangt. Die Kommunikationsmedien aus Bild und Text angemessen zu rezipieren, versteht sich nicht von selbst. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Etwa seit der Jahrtausendwende ist ein internationaler und nach wie vor anhaltender Boom von Adaptionen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie und Historie zu verzeichnen. Dieser ist durch eine bemerkenswerte mediale Vielfalt und Vernetzungsfreude gekennzeichnet. Folglich...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-29
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft
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This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity. As a prominent figure in plastic theory,Ghoshexplores Tagore''s views on education, identity politics, environment, and literature...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-29
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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 :
2024-10-29
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What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Die knapp eineinhalb Jahrzehnte nach 1970 erscheinen im Rückblick als eine Art Sattelzeit der deutschen Popmusik: Fast alle maßgeblichen, zukunftsträchtigen Stile, Artikulations- und Inszenierungsweisen des deutschen Pop entwickeln und etablieren sich in diesem...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694. These proto-novelistic fictions are accompanied by a scholarly introduction as well as notes and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-26
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This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world. As the second volume of Chinese Creative Writing Studies, the first of which introduces Chinese creative writing to English-speaking readers, this book expands on the first in...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-10-25
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-25
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