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History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $151.90).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
ePub
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Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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History didn’t listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out …A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help us see the funny...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2019-11-07
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A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Dieser Band präsentiert die Literatur des Ruhrgebiets zwischen 1960 und 2010, die hauptsächlich vor dem Hintergrund des industriellen wie kulturellen Strukturwandels der Region entstanden ist. In Abgrenzung zu mehr chronikalisch-personal angelegten Literaturgeschichten...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Die Festschrift ist Herrn Professor Gerhard Ressel und seiner Ehefrau Dr. Svetlana Ressel-Jelisavcic zusammen gewidmet. Ihre menschliche Verbundenheit führte im wissenschaftlichen Bereich von Forschung und Lehre zu einer Vielzahl gemeinsam verfasster und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Von den mittelalterlichen Sängern und Epikern über Martin Opitz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, über Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner und Bertolt Brecht bis Günter Grass, Martin Walser, Uwe Tellkamp, Herta Müller und Ursula...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-10-30
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On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government'. It's certainly true that the system of prior restraint enshrined in this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-30
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The book focuses on event boundedness which can be expressed in the aspectual distinction (perfective and imperfective) and on kinesthetic level between gestures that include one or several energy impulses (bounded) and smooth gestures (unbounded).The correlation of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-30
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Der Band enthält 21 Beiträge, die aus der Münchener Tagung zum Thema «Nostalgie. Ein kulturelles Sehnsuchtsmodell» (April 2017) hervorgegangen sind. Allesamt sind sie dem literarischen bzw. kulturellen Phänomen der Nostalgie in den osteuropäischen Literaturen (zumal der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-30
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Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city of New York, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-29
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Cosmopolitanism in the Indian English Novel argues that select novels by Indian writers in English largely present a kind of micro-cosmopolitanism that preserves nation as a primary site for social and cultural formation while opening it up to critique. During colonial...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-10-29
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Spenser, Kyd, and the Authorship of "The Spanish Tragedy" maintains that Edmund Spenser and not Thomas Kyd is the author of The Spanish Tragedy, written in 1590/1592. This argument is based on the strength of the internal evidence and not on computermetrics, linguistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-10-29
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