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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous conceptions and the changes it has undergone over the last century and into the new one. The prevailing threads that run through a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Das vorliegende Buch ist ein neuer, komparatistisch angelegter Versuch über Friedrich Schlegels Konzept der ‚Universalpoesie‘. Dieser Kernbegriff der Früh-Romantik wird mittels der von Schlegel der Bibel entliehenen Paulinischen Dichotomie von ‚Geist‘ und ‚Buchstaben‘...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-06-22
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Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures denigrated wetlands as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-21
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This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family units through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. The book focuses on investigations of the Asian family as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-19
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This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-18
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Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry. The first section, “World Literature and World...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-18
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This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese.This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-18
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Editeur :
Sceptre
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2024-06-13
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Unter dem Begriff der Multisensorik, also dem Zusammenspiel verschiedener Sinne, hat sich in den letzten Jahren ein neues geisteswissenschaftliches Paradigma etabliert, das in Slavistik und Osteuropastudien jedoch noch kaum erforscht ist. Der Band versammelt literatur-,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-12
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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-11
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ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023BBC POETRY EXTRA 'Book of the Month''Landau's stunning collection Skeletons opens: "So whatever's the opposite of a Buddhist that's what I am", and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends,...
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Corsair
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2024-06-06
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While text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic preoccupations. This book upsets that narrative. Examining literary manuscripts from some of the twentieth century's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-01
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Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It argues that working through the full complexity of ‘tragedy’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary ‘settings’. It examines the multifaceted relationships between authors, narrators, and characters to their locales, as well as broader considerations of the significance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey – a set of very different social and cultural landscapes – the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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Romantik und Realismus werden in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung vorwiegend als Gegensätze beschrieben. Ihre Rekonstruktion als dichotome Epochen verstellt aber den Blick auf die Kontinuitäten zwischen den beiden großen Literaturbewegungen des 19. Jahrhunderts, auf...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-05-29
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Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-28
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