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The book examines the perception of the organist as the most influential musical figure in Victorian society through the writings of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning. This will be the first book in the burgeoning area of research into the relationship of music and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-09
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Die Tragikomödie, verstanden als Kombination von Tragik und Komik im Drama, ist eine von der zeitgenössischen Literaturwissenschaft relativ wenig beachtete Gattung. Dabei bietet sie ein heuristisches Modell, das oft übersehene Zusammenhänge in der europäischen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2017-01-06
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Das aktuelle Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2015 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Monika Rinck, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Heinrich Detering und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Darüber hinaus enthält das...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-12-20
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This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-15
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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-09
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Zur jüngsten Kleist-Forschung: Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2012, unter anderem mit der Rede des Preisträgers Navid Kermani. Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der Tagungen "Kleists Briefe" und des Nachwuchskolloquiums Natur im Werk Heinrich von...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book focuses on landscape in the Gothic and the ways landscape both reflects and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-15
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This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form.
The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form.
The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2015 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2014 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Marcel Beyer, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Hortensia Völckers und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger sowie die Beiträge der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-10-27
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Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scènes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comédie humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-04
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Europäer und Wiener, Lyriker und raffinierter Erzähler, erfolgreicher und manchmal packend gescheiterter Dramatiker, weltoffener Essayist und unbequemer Zeitgenosse, sprachmächtiger Sprachskeptiker im Brief des Lord Chandos dieses Handbuch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-10-03
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This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper. It looks at his publications in the Morning Post, which first published one of his most famous poems, Dejection. An Ode. It reveals how he found a socially...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-24
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This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-23
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This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-22
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No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Ein Zeichen sind wir, deutungslos. Schmerzlos sind wir und haben fast / Die Sprache in der Fremde verloren. So beginnt Friedrich Hölderlins Hymne, die dem Gedächtnis gilt, der Göttin der Erinnerung, Mnemosyne. Dieses Buch will den Dichter der Dichter erinnern und das,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-01
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