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Dieses Buch rekonstruiert die mehr-als-menschliche Dimension des Lieds im späten neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Untersucht wird die Darstellung von Vogelgesang in deutschsprachiger Lyrik, Vokalmusik und ornithologischen Schriften. Dabei wird...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-09-04
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This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’. Sojourners are a privileged group of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900–1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with American culture, and traces the evolution of their identities through...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-02
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“Writing Now offers razor sharp historicisation of contemporary cultural sensibilities emerging in Australia’s middlebrow fiction. Lucidly written, meticulously researched and carefully argued, Ricker’s book provides essential guidance to students and scholars in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages. The project analyzes the adaptation of medieval...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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Latein hat die frühe Neuzeit als Sprache der internationalen Kommunikation, der Wissenschaften, der Schule und der Kirche geprägt. Man schrieb allerdings nicht nur Latein, sondern übertrug auch Texte aus allen Epochen und Herkunftssprachen ins...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-09-01
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British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed discussion of middlebrow fiction by women writers who personally witnessed the dismantling of theBritish Empire, the intensification of the Cold War, and the domestic tensions following the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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Violence is one of the most persistently repeated subjects in various discourses from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has led to serious ontological disquisitions. When it comes to the treatment of violence in drama, there has never been anyone more...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book offers case studies from throughout literature to reveal cowardice as a more complex and interesting phenomenon than typically understood. Pushing beyond the straightforward treatment of cowardice in military contexts and others where it is subject to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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Der Begriff der „Form“, ein Schlüsselbegriff der literarischen Moderne, ist mit Vorstellungen von Gesetzmäßigkeit, Essenz und Fixierung, aber auch Dynamik, Wandel, Bruch und Experiment assoziiert. Doch welche Bedeutung hat der Begriff heute...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-31
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What do the works of Thomas Hardy offer us apart from tragedy? This book intends to answer that question, providing a groundbreaking reading of Hardy’s poetry that reveals a hitherto critically neglected optimism. In doing so it seeks to challenge the dominant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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Flüsse sind ein elementares Ökosystem, das von Folgen des Klimawandels und Artensterbens wie menschlichen Eingriffen bedroht ist. Indes –Flüsse wehren sich: treten über die Ufer, trocknen aus, eingedämmt, begradigt und entschlämmt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book explores the spatiality of post-World War II Australian society through the vehicle of David Ireland’s literature. Employing concepts from radical geography and structural Marxist literary theory, it posits the existence of a spatial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critical and alternative imaginary of war and displacement in their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-29
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The volume delves into the provocative terrain of escape as a mode of resistance. Through a diverse array of studies encompassing political theology and artificial intelligence, the author navigates the philosophical landscape of exiting established forms of knowledge...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-29
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We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the generative capacities of language,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book offers a critical introduction to comparative literature. It reviews the origin and development of comparative literature and explores from a theoretical perspective the contributions of prominent Chinese scholars in history such as Lin Shu, Yan Fu, Gu...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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This book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class literature. It explores both the historically and geographically varied nature of the relationship between working-class literatures and national...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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"All real art," wrote William Morris, "is ornamental." If Morris is right, then ornament is not, as some would have it, a triviality, a sign of "want," or a crime. Instead, Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real argues for the many and varied ways in which the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-22
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This volume offers a new perspective on the Zagros region literary tradition. Gurani literature boasts a collection of the region’s oldest oral and written literary traditions. Despite its significance, the repertoire and its essential function in the preservation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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