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Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer putsDerek Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets. It explores Walcott's conscious use of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-23
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There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-21
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This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal studies, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-20
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This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fiction of Constance Antonina (Nina) Boyle: a suffragette described in one obituary as 'second only to Mrs Pankhurst'. Boyle was a well-known campaigner and was the first woman to stand for selection as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-02-17
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Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century.
Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers readers a generous selection of the poetry upon which Byron's fame depended and his reputation now rests. It presents the poems in the chronological order in which they were published, working in almost every...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilogues, and other frame texts. These texts give fascinating glimpses into the ideas and contexts underlying the composition and reception of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-16
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2023 erscheint der 62. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums „Heinrich Heine und die Menschenrechte“, das vom Heinrich-Heine-Institut, der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft und der North American Heine Society veranstaltet...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-02-15
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Heine-Jahrbuch
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This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adrianna M. Santos aims to contribute to a broader conversation concerning the intersections between Chicana...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-02-14
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Anla¨sslich des Abschieds von Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rosebrock im Sommer
2023 von der Goethe-Universita¨t Frankfurt versammelt die Festschrift Beiträge von Kolleg:innen, die sich auf zentrale Themen und Arbeitsfelder von Cornelia Rosebrock beziehen: Fragen nach...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-02-13
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'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.'
Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-13
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'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.'
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-13
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The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Paired with the common misconception...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-12
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There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-08
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National Review's Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'sNational Review. In the 1950s, the magazine sought to establish itself as a conservative alternative to liberal journals like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Europe by African writers: Présence Africaine, launched in Paris in 1947, and Mensagem, published between 1948 and 1964 in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-07
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The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics—tools for living developed in poetry—to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-07
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The volume is a tribute to Aza Alibekovna Takho-Godi by the former students, colleagues, and friends to commemorate her 100th birthday. It contains biographical essays on Aza Alibekovna; essays on ancient Greek literature; ancient Greek philosophy; ancient Greek...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-07
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This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-05
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