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At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-03
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At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-08-03
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This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of gender, and representations of the role of art in society. Although the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-31
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Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway, American Writers and World War I argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-31
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Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway, American Writers and World War I argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-31
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Wir interpretieren nicht nur Texte und haben dafür eine besondere „hermeneutische Kunst“ (Schleiermacher) entwickelt, sondern wir interpretieren auch die Welt um uns. Die Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welche expliziten und impliziten Regeln in der Praxis der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-07-30
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Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticizeHegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-30
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Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticizeHegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-30
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This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-29
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Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-29
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Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-29
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The volume offers an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence the production of literature. By bringing together the research areas of literary criticism and book history, the volume focuses on narrative strategies, metaphors and tropes...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-07-29
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Die Publikation befasst sich mit der Frage, durch welche universellen Konzepte der Verbalaspekt und seine Variationen motiviert sind. Hierfür werden zunächst die Grundlagen der Aspekttheorie auf den Ebenen Vorgangstyp und Vorgangstoken neu beleuchtet und eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-07-29
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This book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-28
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Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.'...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-28
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Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's Ulysses or Eliot's Waste Land.'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-28
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A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen. Was Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is Austen's writing...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-07-28
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Haiti, die erste Schwarze Republik, wurde zur Chiffre einer Aporie der Aufklärung. Denn die Haitianische Revolution (1804) wurde von der französischen Kolonialmacht vehement bekämpft: offenbarend, dass die Ideale von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit keineswegs...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-07-26
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This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably in the first century AD, and the translation into Latin by Lucius Septimius of the spoof...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-24
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This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably in the first century AD, and the translation into Latin by Lucius Septimius of the spoof...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-24
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