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The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical studies, mostly...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-01
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Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining moment in U.S. literary history. Author Sarah Gleeson-White discovers what happened to literary culture-both popular and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-30
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This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferrière, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga. It sees the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-29
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This book offers new perspectives on text/image hybridity in the context of life writing. Each chapter explores the very topical issue of how writers and artists combine two media in order to enhance the autobiographical narrative and experience of the reader. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-28
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Theorien des Populären setzen bisher oftmals bei sozialen Verhältnissen an (z.B. populäre Kultur als Kultur der machtlosen ‚niederen‘ Schichten) oder bestimmen das Populäre über die Merkmale der so bezeichneten Artefakte (etwa als Gegenteil der autonomen, komplexen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-04-26
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?Taking Place: Environmental Change in Literature and Art explores how works of literature and art help us to rethink the ways that we have perceived, imagined, inhabited, explored, conquered, and shared places. The book offers chapters on India, Southern Africa,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-25
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This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-25
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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-24
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'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-24
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Wenngleich der Forschungsstand, wenn es sich um die intendierte Textaussage des Musil’schen Œuvre handelt, durch das Fehlen einer Opinio communis gekennzeichnet ist, tritt die vorliegende Studie den Beweis an, dass eine ebensolche freizulegen ist. In Musils Opus magnum...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-04-23
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This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Much of U.S. cultural production since the twentieth century has celebrated the figure of the singular individual, from the lonesome Huckleberry Finn to the cinematic loners John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, but that tradition casts a backward shadow that prohibits seeing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Dieser Band würdigt Simenons lange unterschätztes Romanwerk in vierfacher Hinsicht. In gattungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive arbeitet er die Originalität der Ermittlerfigur Maigret sowie die Affinität der „harten Romane“ zum Existentialismus heraus. Unter...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-04-22
Collection :
Kriminalität in Literatur und Medien
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How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-22
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-22
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-22
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«An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.»
(Seamus Perry, Fellow of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-16
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Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-15
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Aldous Huxley’s Short Fiction analyzes Huxley’s short stories within a modernist context, highlighting that he shared more characteristics with distinguished modernists than is usually believed. The book also explores other features of Huxley’s short stories,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-13
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This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences. With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-12
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