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The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major series that charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries of the late twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-15
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‘A true Caribbeanist, James Arnold has long been a vital critical presence. These essays bear testimony to a remarkable career and to the hallmarks of Arnold’s scholarship: its extraordinary erudition; and the subtle but determined anticolonialism that motivates the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Scritti tra il 1945 e il 1947, i ventisette brevi dialoghi di questo libro non sono una semplice rivisitazione colta dei miti greci. Sulla scia degli studi antropologici e della psicanalisi, Pavese trasforma figure come Edipo, Achille, Orfeo e Prometeo in interlocutori...
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Cactus
Parution :
2026-03-02
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the explosive founding text of modern feminism. In an era that dismissed women as merely beautiful ornaments for the pleasure of men, Mary Wollstonecraft launched a furious and brilliant assault on the very pillars of a...
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Cactus
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2026-02-22
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich Christian Krachts Ästhetik unter zwei Hauptaspekten: Zum einen hinsichtlich bisweilen irritierend verdrehter Aktualisierungen jener Selbstbezüglichkeit und Vorbehaltlichkeit, die seit Kant als ein zentraler Modus des Ästhetischen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-26
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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-06
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Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
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Abacus
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new...
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Wiley
Parution :
2015-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies
Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-09
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With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American women, and an unapologetic black feminist intervention. The work...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-05
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Tres temas convergentes nos interesan: las mujeres, sus vidas en la frontera y sus escrituras autobiográficas. Entre ellas se encuentran Melinda Rankin con Twenty Years among the Mexicans. A narrative of Missionary Labor; Angelina Elizondo de García Naranjo con sus...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-05
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic.The introduction provides a broad overview of the historical and mythographical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-30
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The book stems from an interdisciplinary and transdiscursive approach to describe Polish masculinities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with the "new masculinity" that has become increasingly distinct in the early twenty-first century. A collection of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-27
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