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The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson offers a comprehensive overview of the Epigrams of Martial and the Siluae of Statius.The praise of power found in...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-08-05
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This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-08-05
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This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-05
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Moritz Heimann (1868–1925), legendärer Lektor des Verlages S. Fischer und zugleich unbekannter Schriftsteller, wird in diesem Buch erstmals als ein zentraler Autor der literarischen Moderne vorgestellt. Ausführliche Analysen seiner Künstlernovellen zeigen, dass Heimann...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-08-03
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Abbas Khider (b. 1973) has established himself as one of the leading literary voices of refugees and marginalised communities in Germany today. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Khider was at a young age a vocal critic of Saddam Hussein’s regime, during which he was jailed and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-03
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Der Band untersucht die unterschiedlichen Aspekte des Begriffs Ereignis (englisch event) im interdisziplinären Kontext und betrachtet aus sprach-, literatur- und translationswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven verschiedene Ereignis- Begriffe. Die englisch- und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-03
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Übersetzer*innen afrikanischer Autoren im deutschen Sprachraum werden oft eurozentrische, kolonialistische und rassistische Absichten unterstellt. Über die Analyse deutscher Übersetzungen ausgewählter Romane von Ferdinand Oyono und Ahmadou Kourouma zeigt El-Shaddai Deva...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-07-31
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Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy examines Liu Cixin’s acclaimed trilogy, aChinese science fiction epic whose translation is exceedingly popular in the Western world. Will Peyton argues that the ingenuity of Liu’s writing is found...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-30
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FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It's that good' Sunday Times 'A masterpiece of literary biography. Zenith has...
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Penguin
Parution :
2021-07-29
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What is identity and how do we construct identity? Why do we have to deconstruct identities again? And what is the role that language policy measures and anti-discriminatory actions play in this process? This volume deals with the topic of identity formation in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-07-29
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Hermann Hesse once stated that his Japanese readers understood him best among all his readers worldwide – a little known fact among readers of Hesse in the West. This book examines Hesse’s reception in Japan and of Japan in the context of a transcultural reception...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-26
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This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-26
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Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-24
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This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-24
Collection :
Crime Files
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Der Band untersucht das Modernwerden des deutschen Romans im 18. Jahrhundert als eine narrativierte Auseinandersetzung zwischen Zufall und Romanform. Die ‚Arbeit am Zufall‘ beschreibt, wie der moderne Roman sich selbst formt, indem er auf verschiedene Weise Zufälligkeit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-07-23
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The fin de siècle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English, Literary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-22
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The fin de siècle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English, Literary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-22
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Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over that period....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-22
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Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over that period....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-22
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-21
Collection :
Literary Lives
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