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The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-07-10
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How to Study Literature
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Das Buch verfolgt anhand von vier Schweizer Romanen die aus diversen Perspektiven gespiegelte, zwischen 1871 und 1945 situierte Schweizer Geschichte. Die Werke «Ein Rufer in der Wüste» (1921) von Jakob Bosshart, «Schweizerspiegel» (1938) von Meinrad Inglin, «Alles in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-10
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Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-10
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Dieses Arbeitsbuch gibt eine grundlegende Übersicht über John von Düffels literarische Arbeiten in poetologischer und werkgeschichtlicher Hinsicht und erschließt neue Themenfelder in seinem Werk. Essays von künstlerischen und intellektuellen Wegbegleitern, Kollegen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This study contends that American writer Cormac McCarthy not only is philosophical, or a “writer of ideas,” but rather that he has a philosophy. Devoting one main chapter to each facet of McCarthy’s thought – his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, respectively – the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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In this volume sixteen essays, in either German or English, present readings of international narratives for children and young adults (CYAL), including films and picture books, within a narratological framework. The works discussed come from different countries:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-07
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This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-07-07
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This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague.This book examines the role of print and manuscript...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book reflects the chronological changes in Chinese cultural values, social relations, economy and politics by critically analyzing the Chinese advertising discourse. The work is based on research into the ideological values portrayed in Chinese household appliance...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-04
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James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exist between Joyce's writing and early cinema and provides an alternative to previous psychoanalytic readings of Joyce and film. Through a compelling combination of historical research...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This new volume gives discursive shape to several key facets of the relationship among politics, theology and religious thought. Powerfully relevant to a wealth of further academic disciplines including history, law and the humanities, it sharpens the contours of our...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world. The contributors attend to the various forms and norms of cultural representation in Atlantic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book explores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It considers how this saint became a theatrical trope enabling the Society of Jesus to address...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-23
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James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exist between Joyce's writing and early cinema and provides an alternative to previous psychoanalytic readings of Joyce and film. Through a compelling combination of historical research...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-23
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This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-22
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This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-22
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