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This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-01
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London's first-hand engagement with the world--the process of becoming and maintaining himself as a citizen of the world--helps define the kind of writing he produced. It is insufficient now to call him a naturalist writer if his principal concern was to reflect and...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-01
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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances ofShakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-01
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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances ofShakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-01
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Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists. Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction introduces and explains the plays by looking at how...
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Teach Yourself
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2016-12-01
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Das Konzept des «Spatial Turn», in den 1980er Jahren durch Edward Soja geprägt, drückt das neue Bewusstsein aus, dass der Raum jeder Produktion von Wissen vorausgesetzt ist. Der vorliegende Sammelband knüpft an diese Bewegung von Wiederentdeckung und Aufwertung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-12-01
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Trotz der Aufmerksamkeit, die den gehenden Protagonisten im Prosawerk W.G. Sebalds in der theoretischen Beschäftigung zugekommen ist, hat die Forschung diese bislang nur selten unter der Perspektive «Flaneur» untersucht. Die Autorin widmet sich Sebalds sorgsamen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-29
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Exam Board: AQA, OCR, WJEC, WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Enable students to achieve their best grade in GCSE English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil...
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Hodder Education
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2016-11-28
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Top Girls throughout the course.This Study and Revise guide:-...
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Hodder Education
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2016-11-28
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We've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first. But what does one do with a major character who simplifies as a novel progresses, to the point where even this novel's other characters begin to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and academic study, presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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Canary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The title refers to the...
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Gateway
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2016-11-24
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This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250 year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill; they may suffer stress...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries....
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-24
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2016 erscheint der 55. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Mit Analysen mehrerer Heine-Vertonungen aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert liegt einer seiner Themenschwerpunkte auf der musikalischen Wirkungsgeschichte des Dichters. Daneben enthält es weitere Forschungsbeiträge zu...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-11-23
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This book identifies the ‘cognitive humanities’ with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation—a Cartesian inner...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a fifteen-year period and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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Aufarbeitung von Vergangenheit ist in Deutschland, anders als in Italien, ein viel diskutiertes Thema. Durch einen interdisziplinären (d.h. historischen, politischen, kultur- sowie literaturwissenschaftlichen) Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Italien geht die Autorin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized—namely, the Other. Jane Chance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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In contrast to most studies of US war writing-those focused on trauma or memory-The Health of the State examines the way writing and thinking about war advanced new, forward-looking orientations toward national belonging, political consent, and the nature and character...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-21
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