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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-04
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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-04
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Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft für Dummies ist eine modular angelegte, lebendig präsentierte und leicht verständliche Alternative zu bisherigen literaturwissenschaftlichen Einführungsbüchern. Es hilft unnötige Barrieren überwinden und macht das...
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Wiley-VCH
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2021-04-30
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Für Dummies
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This book traces the development of literary poetics after postmodernism and outlines the most important features of what is defined here as «post-postmodernism».This new literary form simultaneously recovers the characteristics of the traditional novel and abandons the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-28
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An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers.
From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique body of fiction that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-27
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A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second editionA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-26
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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In der „Logik der Konkurrenz um kulturelle Legitimierung“ zur Etablierung spezifischer intellektueller „Auslese- und Bestätigungsinstanzen“ (Bourdieu) spielen Literaturpreise eine herausragende Rolle. Das Ritual ‚Literaturpreis‘ führt mit den preisstiftenden...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-04-26
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Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children’s literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing examples from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-23
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'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2021-04-22
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Karen Pirie
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Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts wird zum ersten Mal der Typus des „Querulanten“ beschrieben. Es handelt sich um einen devianten Kläger, der mit unzähligen Schreiben die bürokratische Kommunikation stört, die Arbeitskapazität der Gerichte erschöpft und nötigenfalls mit...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-04-21
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This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of intertextuality, as that outlined by Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, is...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-04-20
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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone. Surveying the nuanced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-20
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-16
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-16
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Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! Along with penning some of the most sublime passages in all of English Literature, Shakespeare was a master when it came to casting a wicked comeback or hurling a barbed insult. Whether it's Prospero calling Caliban a...
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OH
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice--villainy--in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice--villainy--in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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"Socialism" names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby uncovers an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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"Socialism" names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby uncovers an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The triggers of laughter in spoken...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-13
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