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Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and occult organizations and individuals. It is also a book filled with the uncertainties and otherworldliness of the London landscape. It contains...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-12
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Baudelaire, Rimbaud und Mallarmé sind zu Eigennamen der Modernität geworden. Zugleich wurden sie im Laufe des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts zum Gegenstand von Deutungen, die widersprüchlicher kaum sein könnten. Die Studie zeichnet nach, wie sich in 100 Jahren der Rezeption...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-04-09
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A deft, masterful study of the life and work of Jean Sulivan. Maher makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of Sulivan’s writings in challenging times and illuminates crucial and often neglected intersections between faith and fiction.A book to cherish. —...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-09
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This book offers a queer reading of the oeuvre of Sicilian director Emma Dante, winner of the 2026 Theatre Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. It contextualises Dante’s work within the longstanding anti-meridionalist North–South binary that has dogged Italy history and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-09
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Gerade in den zahlreichen, weltweit angefertigten Übersetzungen der Gedichte von T. S. Eliot zeigt sich, wie inspirierend die Lyrik des britisch-amerikanischen Nobelpreisträgers bis heute wirkt. Im deutschsprachigen Raum begann die Übersetzungstätigkeit in den 1920er...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-04-08
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Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18. Jahrhunderts die Geltung der Literatur und ihrer Regeln mithilfe von Rückgriffen auf das Recht zu behaupten. Es zeigt auf, wie die Autoren in vielfältiger...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-04-08
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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 :
2026-04-08
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Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book examines that precarity through an analysis of how disaster is expressed through poetry. It situates poetry of disaster as a distinct poetic endeavour and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-07
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“Albrecht Dümling’s rich documentation of this groundbreaking Berlin jazz band with its sensational show power is both a moving testament to the impudent creativity of youth and a warning against timeless strains of bigotry and terror.” — Alan Lareau, Professor Emeritus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-06
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'In a world where the complexity of our cultural and everyday encounters far exceeds the narrow confines of accepted political identity and debate, the concept of transculturality is an absolute necessity. The editor has convened an exciting range of authors to explore...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-04-06
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This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the establishment of the Malawi Writers Group in 1970 and thrived thereafter as a significant literary force in African literature from the 1980s to the 1990s....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-05
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A common thread in mid-century British novels is citizenship, a problematic concept that took cues from the imperatives of civic responsibility that arose during the Second World War and persisted through the innovative programs of the welfare state. From George Orwell...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-04-04
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The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color line" a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that promulgated legal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-03
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The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational justice as an important field of study since the 1970s, the history...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-04-03
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Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2026-04-02
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Although the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century AD, medieval European culture was born from the ruins of its civilisation. In the field of wisdom, the Latin literary tradition accompanied and guided the different kingdoms in formation. This volume brings...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-04-02
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"The author's remarkably perceptive analysis of the complex, demanding story "Here and There" is a true tour de force: first, it carefully disentangles the hierarchically organized worlds and narrative levels, then it masterfully weaves them back together like a skilled...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-04-01
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This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal, preferred to see itself guided by the glaring light of positivism and clear factitiousness. Yet, both canonical and non-canonical texts of the Victorian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-03-31
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die bislang umfassendste empirisch gestützte Untersuchung der Entwicklung des Umweltbewusstseins in Deutschland für den Zeitraum 1890-2023 vorgenommen. Das Umweltbewusstsein wird dabei nicht nur als gesellschaftliche Haltung zur...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-03-31
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The contributions to this volume unearth, discuss, and (re)map networks and circuits of intellectual and cultural exchange among women across the Atlantic in the period stretching from the 19th to the 21st century. Rather than providing a transhistorical understanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-03-31
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