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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster investigates the active role of music in film and fiction portraying climate crisis. From contemporary science fiction and environmental film to “Anthropocene opera,” the most arresting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-31
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"Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie" (1901) legte den Grundstein für Thomas Manns außergewöhnliche Karriere als Schriftsteller und Repräsentant der deutschen Literatur und Kultur weltweit. Der Roman zählt nicht nur zu den nobelpreisgekrönten und meistgelesenen, sondern...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-30
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Christian Volkmann präsentiert den im 19. Jahrhundert überaus erfolgreichen und prominenten Schriftsteller Emanuel Geibel als einen modernen, marktorientierten Autor, der zielorientiert an seiner Karriere und seinem Image arbeitete. Die Studie bricht das scheinbar...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-10-30
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This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking different theoretical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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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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2018-10-26
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In Passions of the Mind, A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her own fiction, and also the work of Great Victorians and a varied range of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-10-26
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This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-25
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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
Parution :
2018-10-25
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Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What makes the experience of reading a novel uniquely pleasurable and what do readers lose...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) klingt in aktuellen Debatten oft abstrakt und alltagsfremd. Doch die meisten Internetnutzerinnern und -nutzer sind bereits täglich mit ihr konfrontiert – wenn...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2018-10-23
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This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of “place” in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that “place” is an important critical category through which to understand this classic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-23
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In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-10-22
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Zentraler Bestandteil der Erinnerungsdiskurse zum Ersten Weltkrieg sind jene Romane, Gedichte oder – historisch besonders wirkmächtig – Theaterstücke, die sich mit dem Kriegsgeschehen und dessen Auswirkungen auseinandersetzen. Der Band konzentriert sich auf die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-22
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion are some of the greatest tales of good versus evil ever told. From the creation of Arda to the War of the Ring, Tolkien's Middle-earth has seen war and rebellion, devastation and loss, in which the...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2018-10-18
Collection :
Tolkien
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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
Parution :
2018-10-18
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