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What is the relationship between the spaces we inhabit and the spaces we create? Does living in a messy downtown New York City apartment automatically translate to writing a messy New York School poem? This volume addresses the 'environment' of the urban apartment,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-04
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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the ‘ideal editor’ can be understood in relation to the long-theorised author and reader. The book’s premise is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural appropriation and from market to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-03
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This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang’s philosophical thought as a unique and syncretic culmination of a number of ideas developed in earlier Han and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative, interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-31
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Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-30
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Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies.
The question that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-30
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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-29
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Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between author,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-27
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2018 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2017 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Ralf Rothmann, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Hanns Zischler und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Es beinhaltet weiterhin...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-27
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This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of ‘Shakespearean’ individuals, groups and communities and their ‘online’ presence, the book explores the role of popular internet...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-25
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Diese komparatistische Monographie stellt zentrale Kategorien und Theorien der Literaturwissenschaft dar. Sie synthetisiert und bewertet den Stand der Forschung und unterwirft viele Dogmen der neueren Forschung einer kritischen Analyse. Resultat ist eine Reformulierung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-25
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story ofSamson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-08-24
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Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-23
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The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare’s rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-22
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Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies.
The question that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-22
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In the early twentieth century, British imperialism in India was at its peak and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. The nationalist desire for cultural self-identification was gaining ground and an important articulation of this was the demand for a national...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-08-22
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How are the pleasures and thrills of the automobile linked to France’s history of conquest, colonialism, and exploitation in Southeast Asia? Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina addresses the contradictions of the “progress” of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-21
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