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The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-13
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Did you know… Shakespeare is the most filmed author of all time: he’s been credited on more than 1,000 movies and TV shows. ‘Obscene’, ‘gloomy’, ‘fashionable’ and ‘generous’ are among the countless new words that Shakespeare introduced. (Actually, ‘countless’ is one of...
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Summersdale
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2016-10-13
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"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this...
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Maclehose Press
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2016-10-13
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The essays in this volume provide an overview and critical account of prevalent trends and theoretical arguments informing current investigations into literary treatments of motherhood and aging. They explore how two key stages in women’s lives—maternity and old age—are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-13
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This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein’s work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein’s radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-12
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This seminal work—now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface—is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-10-12
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This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-11
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Die Kindler Kompakt Bände präsentieren in handlicher Form die 30 - 40 wichtigsten Autoren und Werke einer Literatur eines Jahrhunderts. Auf 192 Seiten werden sie vorgestellt. Dazu gibt es eine kompakte Einleitung des Herausgebers. Hier werden die Epochen verortet, die...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-07
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This book looks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism. David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-07
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Das "Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur" stellt über 1000 Autorinnen und Autoren aus aller Welt vor. In drei Bänden präsentiert es international bekannte "Klassiker" von der Antike bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die in einem eingängigen, essayistischen Stil verfassten...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-07
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Helmut Arntzen (1931–2014) zog mit dieser Auswahl von Aufsätzen die Summe seines Forscherlebens: alle Texte variieren das Thema «Sprachlichkeit» als Movens seiner Beschäftigung mit Literatur. Die Liste der behandelten Autoren mag gelesen werden als Kanon einer Moderne,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-10-07
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Der Autor geht der Frage nach, ob Hans Henny Jahnn in seinem Komponistenroman «Fluss ohne Ufer» musikalische Erzähltechniken verwendete. Ausgehend von Jahnns Rede «Die Aufgabe des Dichters in dieser Zeit» erfolgt eine Skizzierung der Grundlinien der Ästhetik, der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-10-07
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The era of the First World War represents one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in twentieth-century Irish history.The war is closely connected to the violent path to Irish independence from Britain and, for more than a century, it has brought the complexity of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-10-07
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This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-07
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This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-06
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This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-06
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Auch in der Weltliteratur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts wird der Berg zu einem besonderen Ort, der an Transgression gekoppelte Aufstieg zu einer Erkenntnisbewegung und das sowohl in den Alpen als auch in den Anden. Die komparatistisch angelegte Studie stellt sich den...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-06
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Rund 600 Autorinnen und Autoren im Porträt. Das Lexikon informiert über die wichtigsten deutschsprachigen Autorenpersönlichkeiten und ihre Werke vom Mittelalter bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die essayistisch geschriebenen Artikel beleuchten Leben und Gesamtwerk im...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-06
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'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-06
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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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2016-10-06
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