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This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. As inheritors of the Enlightenment's emphasis on scientific...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-15
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This is the first book-length study of Covid fictions in Britain. It argues that although it was common to see the Covid-19 pandemic as a state of exception, that is, as a unique emergency for which there was no precedent, it is misleading to treat the experience of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-15
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Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England.
Cloth, broadly interpreted,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-15
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Provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of literary criticism from antiquity to the present Spanning more than two millennia of intellectual history, Literary Criticism from Plato to Post-Theory: An Introduction offers the most thorough and accessible survey...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-10-14
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The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted to the teaching of art all contributed to very public and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-10
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Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, it shows how his works spoke back to the Founders' competing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-10
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Provides a student-friendly introduction to World Literature Bridging the gap between introductory materials and advanced scholarly research, the Concise Companion to World Literature offers a streamlined selection of the most popular and essential essays from The...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-10-09
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Die deutschsprachige Gegenwartslyrik zeichnet sich durch eine intensive Rezeption und Aktualisierung des Barocks aus, deren historische Verbindungslinien die Beiträge in ihren Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten, Diachronien und Anachronien nachzeichnen....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-10-09
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Übersetzungen enthalten per se ein Moment der Verunsicherung – so die These der in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze. Indem sie Unbekanntes zugänglich machen, ermöglichenÜbersetzungen zwar einerseits Verständigung und wirken...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-10-09
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"C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorizing the Other traces how the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy achieved global recognition through the writings and advocacy of E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Stephen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel. These...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright's dramatic reinvention of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a wide range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations ofPersian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Die vorliegende intertextuelle Untersuchung behandelt die Zitierweise von Arno Schmidt in seinem letzten fragmentarischen Prosatext „Julia, oder die Gemälde“. Schmidts späte Dialogromane zeichnen sich durch eine in der deutschsprachigen Literatur...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-10-03
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'This is a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers - and once you slip into its beguiling flow, you don't want it to end. Poised, fecund and inventive, Dumont's poetry speaks to these times - with a visceral sense of how it is to navigate fracture, interrogate the...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2025-10-02
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The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted to the teaching of art all contributed to very public and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book explores analogies and correspondences between dance and poetry, with an emphasis on how dance and dance choreography can shed light on poetry, poetic form and the teaching of poetry.
Chronologically, the book examines the Renaissance/Baroque period in Europe...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Das Handbuch erschießt das für die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts und der Gegenwart bedeutende Werk der Erzählerin, Lyrikerin und Hörspielautorin Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016). Es stellt ihren Roman „Die größere Hoffnung“, die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book defines nature writing as the creative practice of tracing the bodily and sensory enjoyment of nature—in the broad sense of the processes and places of land, air, and water—in prose poetry and poetic prose. In so doing, it celebrates the creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book explores the multifaceted themes of home, belonging, and multiculturalism in contemporary British South Asian fiction. Through detailed literary analysis of novels by authors such as Nadeem Aslam, Gautam Malkani, and Kamila Shamsie, this work delves into how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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