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A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television,A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison’s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two.The authors analyze Morrison’s texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-31
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Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg (1913–1924) illustrates a change in the author’s conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros following World War I. Set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, the novel’s main protagonist, Hans Castorp, comes into contact with three...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-29
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The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-29
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Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection PrizeThis book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan Hollinghurst, Britain’s foremost gay writer and the English novel’s master...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.This book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This is the first book to provide a comparative exploration of the gendered and sexual body in Mozambican literature, engaging with the work of six authors spanning different generations, styles and aesthetics. The study begins by providing a detailed and innovative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht?s drama? Which of Goethe?s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi?s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable “intellect on fire,” Fanon was a radical thinker with original theories on race,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity.The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga’s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Die Autorin betrachtet literarische Texte zur «Wende» aus literaturwissenschaftlicher und didaktischer Perspektive. Dieser Literatur kommt für heutige Kinder und Jugendliche eine besondere Bedeutung zu, indem sie für diese und für nachfolgende Generationen Erinnerungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-22
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This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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Der Autor widmet diese Studie dem komplexen literarischen Werk Walter Benjamins. Die einzelnen Kapitel des Bandes zeichnen den Einfluss der Epochen nach. Ausgehend von älteren avantgardistischen Traditionen der Aufklärung, der Französischen Revolution und des Vormärz...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-12
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This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-11
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The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi’s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails intelligently and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-11
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Der Band dokumentiert die Sektionen aus dem Bereich Kulturwissenschaften auf dem IVG-Kongress 2015. Er beginnt mit der Sektion «Kulinaristik: Kultur – Kommunikation – Küche». Darauf folgt die Sektion «Begegnungen zwischen den deutschsprachigen Ländern und Asien», bevor...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-10
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This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-09
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This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective relations of reading through experiments with literary form. Teagan Bradway conceptualizes “bad reading” as an affective politics that stimulates queer relations of erotic and political belonging in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-09
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