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This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern 'etymological poetry' that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly. Close readings of poetry and criticism by Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-10
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The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature is an unprecedented comparative study of postmodern Chinese literature and continental European modernism. This book deconstructs and reconstructs central works of post-1976 Chinese literature and the main texts of European...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-07-10
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T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-08
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T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-08
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What is life? is a query that never dies… Most modern-day approaches to this enduring question attempt to define what life is, from the standpoint of science, philosophy, religion, medicine, etc. In this book, the conception of life in Western culture is explored...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-07-07
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This book explores the topic of ideological manipulation in the translation of children’s literature by addressing several crucial questions, including how target language norms and conventions affect the quality of a translation, how translations are selected on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-06
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Luisa Valenzuela’s oeuvre is marked by a fixation with marginal characters, those often rendered invisible by society and outside hegemony: the subaltern. Valenzuela’s El Mañana captures echoes of the past, aggravated in a globalized world, takes them apart and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-07-06
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Nach den verheerenden Krisen im 14. Jahrhundert wuchs in Europa der Wunsch nach grundlegenden Reformen in Kirche und Gesellschaft. An dieser Suche beteiligten sich neue wie alte Kräfte: Humanisten ebenso wie Mitglieder der Reformorden, Fürsten und städtische Eliten. Im...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-07-06
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„Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-06
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Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-30
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The Faces of Depression in Literature brings together some of the best-known specialists and scholars on the topic of depression in literature worldwide to offer a multidisciplinary approach concerning the philosophical, theological, and literary narratives of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Anti-Helden stellen modellhaft die Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen, oft problematischen Lebenssituation im sozialen Aspekt des Außenseitertums dar. Mit individuellen menschlichen Schwächen bieten solche Figuren Einblicke in Gedanken, Handlungsmotive und Phantasien....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Der Band präsentiert die Werke Handkes von den Hornissen (1966) bis zu Das zweite Schwert (2020) in Einzelanalysen und erschließt zugleich übergreifende Orientierungen von Handkes Schreiben. Die autoreflexiven Spuren, die das experimentelle Frühwerk des Autors...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their role in shaping that great poetic tradition. This is the first work in English to analyze the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-24
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The book deals with the problem of anti-utopian way of thinking in literature, its preconditions, and variations in the 20th century. Moreover, it is a first attempt to read one of the most prominent Georgian texts – Jakho’s Dispos-sessed by the Georgian writer Mikheil...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-23
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