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This book analyses cricket’s place in Anglophone Caribbean literature. It examines works by canonical authors – Brathwaite, Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon – and by understudied writers – including Agard, Fergus, John, Keens-Douglas, Khan and Markham. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-01
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This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge – Architecture, Chemistry,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-16
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Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-14
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This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-31
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This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-24
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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...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-04-26
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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 collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar presence in scholarship on the Shelley-Godwin circle and on Dissenting intellectual circles, but the present collection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-29
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The four prose texts discussed in Literary Rooms position themselves in a literary tradition which highlights the manifold purposes the private room may serve: it is a mirror of the inhabitant, a context in which to position the self, a place of and motor for identity...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-26
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This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Diese literaturwissenschaftliche Studie befasst sich mit Konzeptionen des Tiers in der Spätaufklärung. In der Anthropologie des 18. Jahrhunderts sind Tiere wichtige Grenzfiguren. Das gilt sowohl für ‚das Tier‘ als abstrakte Kategorie als auch für konkrete Tiere – am...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-01
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Der Band berichtet über reale Reisen, Ansichten und Anekdoten von Alexander von Humboldt und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, denen der Erzähler eine literarische Form gibt, die zugleich informiert und unterhält. In fiktiven Dialogen, inneren Monologen, Briefen oder...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-08
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In den letzten Jahren beginnt die Debatte um ein ‚New Nature Writing‘ auch im deutschsprachigen Literaturbetrieb Fuß zu fassen. Lässt sich die aus einer langen angelsächsischen Literaturtradition (White; Thoreau) stammende Kategorie ‚Nature Writing’ im deutschsprachigen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-02-05
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This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
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Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-24
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This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-23
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Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, Romantic Prayer shifts attention to the quintessential...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, Romantic Prayer shifts attention to the quintessential...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-21
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