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Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Over the course of the century, scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-03
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Whether we speak of queer bodies targeted for harassment, queer sensibilities derided as dangerous, or queer intimacies denied legitimacy, we acknowledge a close companionship between queerness and precariousness. Queerness remains continuously under threat; these...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-02
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From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construction of American...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-02
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This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.” In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-30
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This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across national, linguistic and cultural borders and repositions a range of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-29
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This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures.This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-28
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This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate that users’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-26
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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-21
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Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne’s writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy. The text...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters explore demonic representations in the literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.
Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.
Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
ePub
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.
Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
ePub
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Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery. While previous studies have stressed these plays'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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