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This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-21
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Die Neuauflage des Standardwerks bringt neue Kapitel zu den Themen Lyrik und Komik, Lyrik und Bibel, Lyrik und Emotion, zum Verlegen und zum Unterrichten von Lyrik sowie zur aktuellen Gegenwartslyrik. Das komparatistisch ausgerichtete Handbuch stellt die Poetiken der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-11-18
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The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture.The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-18
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The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints.The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete reference framework.The...
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Springer
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2016-11-17
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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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In thinking about Justice, we ignore Love to our peril. Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare asks why love is considered a 'soft' subject, fit for the arts and religion perhaps, but unfit for boardrooms, parliamentary and congressional debates, law schools and courtrooms,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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In thinking about Justice, we ignore Love to our peril. Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare asks why love is considered a 'soft' subject, fit for the arts and religion perhaps, but unfit for boardrooms, parliamentary and congressional debates, law schools and courtrooms,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Anyone who reads the Gospels carefully will notice that there are differences in the manner in which they report the same events. These differences have led many conservative Christians to resort to harmonization efforts that are often quite strained, sometimes to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-17
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Since the financial crisis cannot be explained by looking at the ‘numbers’ alone, Judith Schulz investigates the diverse facets of the economic system, including the emotional response and motivations of the actors. It is precisely in this context that fiction can fill...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-11-16
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Gerrit Lungershausen untersucht Kriegsromane, -novellen und -erzählungen zur Zeit des ‚Dritten Reichs‘. Der Autor erschließt ein umfangreiches Korpus von 188 Kriegsprosatexten zwischen 1933 und 1940, die bislang wenig Beachtung in der Forschung fanden, was angesichts...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Die vorliegende Bibliographie zu Ernst Jünger führt den 2003 erschienenen Vorgängerband weiter und dokumentiert die komplexe Forschungsgeschichte bis zum Jahr 2015 in übersichtlicher Systematik: Monographien, Kongress-Schriften, Beiträge in Zeitschriften und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Das Buch rückt den Erzähler Albert Drach als Essayisten in den Mittelpunkt. Drach veröffentlichte Gedichte, Dramen und vor allem erzählende Texte und blieb als Essayist bisher nahezu unbekannt. Der Autor verdeutlicht am Thema der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Zur jüngsten Kleist-Forschung: Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2012, unter anderem mit der Rede des Preisträgers Navid Kermani. Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der Tagungen "Kleists Briefe" und des Nachwuchskolloquiums Natur im Werk Heinrich von...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book focuses on landscape in the Gothic and the ways landscape both reflects and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-14
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This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-10
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How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration? Conspicuous Silences answers these questions by examining Victorian...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-10
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Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Tagung, die im März 2015 in Hamburg stattfand und das Hamburger Stadttheater (1770–1850) zum Thema hatte. Im Mittelpunkt der ersten Sektion steht die Frage nach dem spezifischen Profil...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-10
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This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges.The legal thriller typically uses court trials...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-10
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