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The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. From debates over the rights of women to the sources of Shakespeare's plays, the Greco-Roman historians played a central role in the period's political, cultural, and literary achievements. An Ocean...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-23
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This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-17
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It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end. On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee Child embarked on the twentieth book in his globally successful Jack...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-03-16
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Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-12
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This book presents the transformation of Cassirer’s transcendental point of view. At an early stage, Cassirer was confronted with a scientific crisis triggered by the emergence of various forms of objective knowledge, such as the plurality of geometric axiom systems and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-11
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This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions about James by David Lodge and Colm Tóibín, and those written from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-11
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This book investigates the spaces of interaction between Portuguese and Brazilian modernists—specifically Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and Haroldo de Campos, Ronald de Carvalho, António Ferro, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro—and their interpretation of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book explores the amorphous, fragmented and digressive world of George Gordon Byron’s poetic works, which are pervaded by the themes of change, mutability, deformation and transgression, often presented or described as madness. The blurring of the border between...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-09
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Jasmin Humburg provides evidence of naturalist narrative strategies, tropes, and character variations in six contemporary American television series: The Wire, Tremé, Shameless, Ozark, Orange is the New Black and 2 Broke Girls. The author investigates how poverty is...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-03-06
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This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children’s literature and film and creates a dialogue between East and West and between the cultures from which they emerge, within the complex symbiosis of their local, national and transnational frameworks. In terms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-06
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Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major material condition of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-05
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Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major material condition of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-05
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Wie kaum ein anderer Autor des Mittelalters schaffte es Ulrich von Liechtenstein als prägende Dichter- und Politikerpersönlichkeit der Steiermark des 13. Jahrhunderts sowie als gleichnamiger Held seines fiktio-biographischen Versromans „Frauendienst" zu einem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-05
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At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-03
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Angesichts enormer digitaler Vernetzungen, die den Informationsfluss im Radius (a)sozialer Netzwerke wie in seiner Aktualität beträchtlich erhöhen, und gesellschaftlich einschneidender Krisen erweist sich heutzutage gerade die engagierte Literatur verstärkt als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-02
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The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it should be remembered.The publication of previously barely known underground and émigré literary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-02
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Die Kanonisierung literarischer Texte drückt eine besondere normative Anerkennung aus und zieht die Literaturtheorie in die Gestaltung gesellschaftlich-kultureller Machtverhältnisse hinein. Der vorliegende Band geht darum der noch zu wenig von der Kanonforschung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-02
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This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-29
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