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Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand’s works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rand’s texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-15
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In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-15
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In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-15
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Pathology. Psychosis. Schizophrenia.
These words often prove inseparable from the life and work of Robert Walser, who retreated to the sanatoria of Switzerland with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In so doing, he came to embody our romantic image of the outsider,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Although Gothicism remains a popular subject of scholarly investigation, little attention has been paid to the figure of the Gothic female tyrant. This book attempts to prove that despotic women in Gothic fiction are more than mere female equivalents of male tyrants or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-14
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Sartre, Camus und die Kunst untersucht die Überlegungen und Analysen der beiden Autoren zur Ästhetik. Der Streit zwischen ihnen nach der Veröffentlichung von Camus' Der Mensch in der Revolte und Sartres Kritik an diesem Buch führte 1952 zum Bruch ihrer Freundschaft....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-14
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As an urban space that becomes ideal and symbolic, Naples is a stronghold of imagination. Mount Vesuvius, the Gulf and also Pompeii, Herculaneum, Portici: the City gets lost in its own stories. Neapolis as a true mermaid, an irresistible and fatal temptation; on one...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-14
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“The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanities
and Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues that
bring together richly diverse perspectives and advance current debates in
a range of fields, by carefully decoding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-14
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Der 90. Geburtstag im Jahr 2019 hat Michael Ende (1929-1995) erneut in die Öffentlichkeit gerückt und auch die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit seinem literarischen Schaffen beflügelt. In dessen Zentrum steht die Unendliche Geschichte (1979) mit ihrer Idee einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-14
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This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-12
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'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-11
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'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-11
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Die Kant-Krise 1801 ist seit 200 Jahren Gegenstand der Kleistforschung. Der Autor systematisiert und testet alle bisher zum Thema vorgelegten Hypothesen. Im Zentrum steht Kleists Grüne-Gläser-Gleichnis als Zeugnis seiner Krise. Sowohl analytische Zugänge wie die Frage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-10
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A violent history of the anti-caste movement in twelfth-century Karnataka.A myth from the Mahabharata depicted as a narrative of passion, betrayal, and parricide. Th e inner world of a man whose public life was a continual war against British colonialism.A reflection on...
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OUP India
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2020-09-10
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The tale of a mythic king’s aggression against his offspring, and his desperation to escape the curse of old age laid upon him in the prime of life.The anxieties that torment a middle-class family as their daughter awaits the arrival of the ‘suitable boy’ from abroad...
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OUP India
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2020-09-10
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2020 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2019 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Ilma Rakusa, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Yoko Tawada und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Abhandlungen zu Kleists...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2020-09-10
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Il lavoro d’analisi condotto sulla rivista italo-spagnola Legioni e Falangi.Rivista d’Italia e di Spagna/Legiones y Falanges. Revista mensual de Italia y de España offre la possibilità di rileggere la scrittura letteraria spagnola su stampa dei primi anni Quaranta...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2020-09-08
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Half a dozen authors quote a total of over forty extracts from Pliny’s Natural History that are absent from our manuscripts of Pliny. These extracts have been virtually ignored by scholars, and never studied systematically. This book demonstrates that the half-dozen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-08
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The given volume provides insight into the integrated cooperation that was built in the trilateral scientific project "Aggression and Argumentation. Discourses of Conflict and their Linguistic Negotiation". Presented here are analyses of the relationship of language and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-08
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This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-04
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