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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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Shibata Renzaburo and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work ofShibata Renzaburo (?????, 1917–1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-30
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Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-27
Collection :
Critical South
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Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-26
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The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-26
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Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästhetisch autonom. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-21
Collection :
Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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This book conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Franz Kafka’s relation to China. Commencing with an examination of the myriad Chinese cultural influences to which Kafka was exposed, it goes on to explore the ways in which they manifest themselves in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-20
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José Saramago, one of the most critically acclaimed writers worldwide, was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. This honour, the first to be bestowed on a Portuguese-language writer, marked one of the high points in a long and manifold career....
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Die Studie analysiert ausgewählte deutschsprachige Satiren, die Figuren des Narren enthalten und den Zeitraum vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert widerspiegeln. Dadurch sollen der Forschung neue Vorschläge gemacht werden, wie die Satire erfasst werden kann.Die Untersuchung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-15
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The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-14
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This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth’s representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character – one that she invites...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-14
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In seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird. Dabei widmet er sich der Erschließung einer Poetik...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-14
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'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths'
- Bertrand Russell
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-13
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