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Multiple Narratives, Versions and Truth in the Contemporary Novel considers the shifting perception of truth in fiction. Nicholas Frangipane examines the narrative technique of telling multiple versions of the same sets of events, presenting both true and false versions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-10-22
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This book views late Victorian femininity, the New Woman, and gender through literary representations of the figure of the monster, an appendage to the New Woman. The monster, an aberrant occurrence, performs Brecht’s “alienation effect,” making strange the world that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-18
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„Eine Romanbibliothek der rigorosesten Auswahl, und beschränkte man sie auf ein Dutzend Bände, auf zehn, auf sechs, – sie dürfte ‚Effi Briest’ nicht vermissen lassen“ (Thomas Mann). Das Handbuch stellt den bekanntesten Roman Theodor Fontanes und damit einen der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-10-02
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This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-01
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Der 58. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte Heinrich Heines, Rezensionen und die neueste Bibliographie der Heine-Literatur. Außerdem dokumentiert er die Verleihung des Heine-Preises der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-30
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2019 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2018 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Christoph Ransmayr, der Vertrauensperson der Jury László Földényi und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Den Schwerpunkt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-24
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Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm throughout canonical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-16
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This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis’s London Fields, Margaret Drabble’s The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-01
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This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-28
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Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-30
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Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-30
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-27
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-27
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-24
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-24
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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-05-21
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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-17
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This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-26
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