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This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-02
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Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-31
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die Analyse von Identitätskonstruktionen und transkulturellen Narrativen in ausgewählten Werken von G. Kuruvilla, I. Scego, L. Wadia und S. Abdel Qader. Der kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugang dient dem zentralen Anliegen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-31
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The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-30
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This book is a critical experiment that tracks the literary and poetic uses of musical notation and notational methods in North American long poems from the middle of last century to the contemporary moment. Poets have readily referred to their poems as “scores.” Yet,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-28
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This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analysing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright's most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-26
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This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analysing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright's most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-26
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has'...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
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This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-25
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The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-25
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce’s famed book of short stories, Dubliners. Despite the multifaceted critical attention Dubliners has received since its publication more than a century ago, many readers and teachers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-24
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Obwohl ein isländisches Sprichwort besagt, das Gesehene ist reicher als das Gehörte (sjón er sögu ríkari), wird und wurde die Kultur Islands vor allem von der Sprache bestimmt. Der Autor lässt die Wortkunst Islands in ihren vielfältigen Ausprägungen lebendig werden. Er...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-21
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Die deutschsprachige Literatur in 1.500 Werken. Was ist charakteristisch für die Gedichte Grünbeins? Wo wurde Hauptmanns 'Vor Sonnenaufgang' uraufgeführt? Informationen zu diesen und anderen Fragen, zu Quellen, Themen und Wirkung liefert die bewährte 'Metzler Literatur...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-21
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This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate —or to obliterate—the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) ist der einzige in der Schweiz geborene Literaturnobelpreisträger. Dazu hat er durch seine Rede «Unser Schweizer Standpunkt» 1914 die Beibehaltung der absoluten Neutralitätspolitik der Schweiz stark mit beeinflusst. Doch das Interesse an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-20
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Wie lässt sich die Autobiographie als Gattung bestimmen? Die Autorin erläutert die zentralen Theorien. Sie gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Autobiographie von der Antike bis zur Postmoderne und informiert über Schlüsselwerke, historische Kontinuitäten und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-20
Collection :
Sammlung Metzler
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This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book is about the role that the imperfect, the disquieting and the dystopian are currently playing in the construction of Irish identities. All the essays assess identity issues that require urgent examination, problematize canonical definitions of Irishness and,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends—and for their largely working-class readership—long after those works’ original publication. It examines how the literature of the British...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book examines three aspects of Rolle’s thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in queer ways to experience the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-19
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