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This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-22
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-22
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-22
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During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-22
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Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway.
Both an intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-22
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This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-22
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Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-21
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This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-19
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This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-15
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During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-15
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Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway.
Both an intellectual...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-15
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Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-15
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Das Handbuch entfaltet erstmals einen systematischen, theoriegeleiteten und historisch fundierten Überblick zur Kriminalliteratur. Sowohl literaturwissenschaftliche Konzepte von der Gattungsreflexion bis zu Raumtheorien kommen darin zum Tragen als auch Theorien des...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-11-14
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As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, edited by Richard Begam and Michael...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-12
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This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-11
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This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-11
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„Die Welt uns endlich häuslich einzurichten!“ Diesem Ziel, festgehalten in einem seiner letzten Gedichte, war Brechts Werk verpflichtet. Es sollte „eingreifende Literatur“ sein, sich einmischen, gesellschaftliche Veränderungen anstoßen. Nicht jedoch – wie es ein...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-11-10
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George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize, the Orwell Lecture, and, more recently, Orwell Day. A statue of Orwell now stands outside Broadcasting House in London and he continues to tower over...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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