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Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan’s musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-28
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Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes exposes the limitations of the solitudes concept so often applied uncritically to theCanadian experience. This volume examinesCanadian and Québécois literature of the fantastic across its genres—such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-27
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Yashar Mohagheghi untersucht den Wandel der Festkultur im späten 18. Jahrhundert. Im Zuge von Dekorporierung und Verzeitlichung gewinnt das Fest Verbreitung als Assoziationspraktik des politisierten Bürgertums und als Inszenierungsmedium der erhofften Zeitenwende. In...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-05-27
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-27
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-27
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-24
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-24
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Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £90.00, $135.90).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-05-22
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This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist’s studio and in literary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-21
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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-05-21
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Die Idylle steht im Spannungsfeld von Kitsch und Katastrophe, das Nils Jablonski durch medienkomparatistische close readings literarischer, filmischer und televisiver Texte untersucht. In der Perspektive einer materialen Topik wird das vielfältige Verkommen der Idylle...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-05-17
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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-17
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Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-16
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Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-16
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