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This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-20
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Das Werk des Hamburger Ratsherrn Barthold Heinrich Brockes hat in der Forschung einige wirkungsmächtige Deutungen erfahren. Sie betonen seinen Stellenwert als wichtigen Dichter der Frühaufklärung. Gleichzeitig neigen sie dazu, sein umfangreiches Werk jeweils im Licht...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-01-17
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'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source'
Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-16
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'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source'
Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-16
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This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-15
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This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-15
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This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works. Probing the realms of literary and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-13
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The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has long provided fertile ground for the construction and reconstruction of new forms of classicism. From the aftermath of slavery up to the present day,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has long provided fertile ground for the construction and reconstruction of new forms of classicism. From the aftermath of slavery up to the present day,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-07
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The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-06
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Billy Roche – musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, screenwriter – is one of Ireland’s most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche’s work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-01-03
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"Literarische Autozoographien" erschließt ein größtenteils unbekanntes Textkorpus quasi-autobiographischer Ich-Romane und non-fiktionaler Schriften von Tieren aus einer sowohl gattungstheoretisch als auch kultur- und wissensgeschichtlich informierten Perspektive....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-01-02
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This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking.This collection of critical essays focuses on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-02
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The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture.
It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture.The book elucidates...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-01-02
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This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory.This is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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