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Friedrich Schlegels Lebenslauf - von der revolutionsbegeisterten Jugend über die Jenaer Jahre bis zur Konversion zum Katholizismus - spiegelt die ganze Romantik. Seine theoretischen Schriften lieferten die Grundlagen für etliche romantische Autoren („progressive...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-04-04
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This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the growth of social history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-30
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This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-30
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In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-03-30
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Dieser Jahrgangsband der Simpliciana enthält 19 Vorträge, die während der interdisziplinären Tagung zum Thema «Schuld und Sühne im Werk Grimmelshausens und in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit» vom 23. bis zum 25. Juni 2016 in Oberkirch und Renchen gehalten wurden....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-28
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This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-27
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‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-27
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“Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way. Shaw’s readings are critically informed and theoretically sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-27
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This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to Tenth of December (2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-25
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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Fühmanns Held im «Judenauto» zieht als begeisterter Mitläufer in den Vernichtungskrieg und kehrt als gläubiger Sozialist aus der sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenschaft zurück in «seine» DDR. Obwohl 1962 und 1979 in differierenden Textfassungen erschienen, gilt «Das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-24
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The thirty years Carlo Goldoni spent in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career.The preface to his autobiography explicitly draws attention to France as the site of his authorial glory, but elsewhere he dismisses his work for the Parisian Comédie-Italienne as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-24
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«Academia in Fact and Fiction» comprises twenty-eight essays on the relationship(s) between the university and the practice of belles lettres. The collection includes studies of the teaching of fiction by university professors; the fit – or misfit – between the creative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-24
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The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-22
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This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-21
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Departure from Ireland has long occupied a contradictory position in Irish national discourse, alternately viewed as exile or betrayal. This book analyses how departure, as well as notions of home, identity and return, is articulated in the narratives of three members...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-03-21
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«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-20
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This book argues that the fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien’s concept of Fa?rie, as represented by the fantasy works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin, has certain psychotherapeutic properties. Fa?rie’s generic ‘ethos’ seems to draw on ‘moral imagination’...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-20
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Lange galt in der Forschung die Zeitstruktur von Emily Brontës Roman «Wuthering Heights» als undurchsichtig, meist sogar als fehlerhaft. Lediglich drei Jahreszahlen stehen im Text einer Fülle von relativen Zeitangaben gegenüber, die den Verlauf der Ereignisse zu diesen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-20
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This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-18
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This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge.This book argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-18
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