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The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
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This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises. Paying close attention to the interrelations between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-29
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The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain. Set against the providentialism of conservative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-24
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The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain. Set against the providentialism of conservative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-24
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This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-16
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This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-16
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This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies – from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels – to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption that genre is both frequently used and undertheorized in the medium....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-04-09
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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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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 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
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2020-03-09
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-29
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Eduard von Keyserlings Werk geriet, trotz prominenter Fürsprecher wie Hermann Hesse, Herman Bang oder Thomas Mann, so häufig in Vergessenheit, wie es wiederentdeckt wurde. Zumeist erscheint Keyserling als ästhetischer Spätling, der nostalgisch von untergehenden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-28
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Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts. But what about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-13
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Das Versepos, einst bedeutend unter den literarischen Gattungen und mit einer reichen Tradition seit der Antike, ist im deutschsprachigen wie im europäischen Raum seit etlichen Jahrzehnten deutlich weniger im Fokus. Immer wieder totgesagt, ist es jedoch lebendiger als...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-07
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As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film explores ways that late 20th- and early 21st- century fiction and film from Japan literally and figuratively map Tokyo. The four dozen novels, stories, and films discussed here describe, define, and reflect on Tokyo urban space. ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-30
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Romanticism and the Letter is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of letter writing in the Romantic period of British Literature. Although the correspondence of the Romantics constitutes a major literary achievement in its own right, it has received...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-29
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Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical ‘turn’ to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that approach literature via the prism of New Materialism are in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-25
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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,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-20
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