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God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Wir interpretieren nicht nur Texte und haben dafür eine besondere „hermeneutische Kunst“ (Schleiermacher) entwickelt, sondern wir interpretieren auch die Welt um uns. Die Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welche expliziten und impliziten Regeln in der Praxis der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-11-10
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Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance?How can a culture in which theatre played no part in the past create a theatrical tradition in the modern world?How do political and social conditions affect the encounter...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Telegraphies explores literatures envisioning the literary, societal, even the perceived metaphysical effects of various cultures' telecommunications technologies, to argue that nineteenth-century Americans tested in the virtual realm new theories of self, place,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-09
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The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.‘A moving testament to one of the last century’s greatest writers’ Sunday TimesAt forty-nine, Saul Bellow was at the pinnacle of American letters – he was rich, famous and...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-11-08
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'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "translated" Shakespeare’s sonnets and he has done so with an insolent, loveable charm … A dazzling success’ – Stephen FryRediscover the greatest love poetry ever writtenShall I...
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Virgin Digital
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2018-11-08
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This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-07
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This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-07
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This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-05
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Florian Nieser zeigt in diesem Buch den interpretatorischen Mehrwert von uneindeutigen Zeichen auf, die Irritationen und Ambivalenzen produzieren. Ausgehend vom Blickwinkel eines ‚informierten‘ zeitgenössischen Rezipienten des Willehalm und der Bataille d’Aliscans...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-11-04
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This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-03
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Der 57. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält wissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung Heinrich Heines sowie zur Literatur des Vormärz, darunter eine Darstellung von Heines Verhältnis zum Anarchismus von Olaf Briese und Studie über Ludwig Börne von Stephan...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2018-11-02
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Heine-Jahrbuch
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Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-11-02
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This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting a theory on the philosophical definition and importance of the novel as a literary genre. It analyses a variety of individuals whose work is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-02
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This book charts an interdisciplinary narrative of literary pragmatism and creative democracy across the writings of African American women, from the works of nineteenth-century philosophers to the novels and short stories of Harlem Renaissance authors. The book argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-02
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'Required reading.' - CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the...
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Trapeze
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2018-11-01
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-01
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This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-01
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