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The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-15
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Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Reading Shakespeare’s Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare’s poems and how they speak to readersReading Shakespeare’s Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poems, providing insights into the individual poems, their themes and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-12
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Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography ofConstance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-12
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This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-11
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This book looks at Margaret Atwood’s use of food motifs in speculative fiction. Focusing on six novels – The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, the Maddaddam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last – Katarina Labudova explores the environmental, ecological, and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-10
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-09
Collection :
Critical South
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Als Autor von weltliterarischem Rang hat Arthur Schnitzler die Epoche der Klassischen Moderne literarisch äußerst produktiv und mit hochgradiger Sensibilität für ihre Probleme und Widersprüche begleitet. Sein Werk weist eine enorme motivische Bandbreite auf und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-11-09
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Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-08
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This handbook brings together recent international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary fields of digital and public humanities. Exploring key concepts, theories, practices and debates within both the digital and public humanities, the handbook also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Das Buch untersucht E.T.A. Hoffmanns Roman Die Elixiere des Teufels. Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus eines Capuziners mit dreifacher Zielsetzung: Zum Ersten präzisiert es anhand einer eingehenden textnahen Lektüre das gängige Verständnis des Texts in mehreren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-03
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HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people:...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept. The author...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-02
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This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s.
Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen’s narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood, exploring how Austen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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