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This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-02
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Crime Files
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Kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Theorien sind äußerst vielgestaltig. Doch welche Konzepte sind relevant? Welche Begriffe spielen eine tragende Rolle? Wie haben sich die literaturgeschichtlichen Modelle entwickelt? Welche Autoren prägen die gegenwärtigen Diskurse?...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-02
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This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic criticism and expanding the range of cultural material that falls under...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-02
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The papers reflect on «visions» and «revisions» of selected theoretical and applied linguistic issues. Methodologically, they all reflect and contribute to the polarization between form- and substance-oriented approaches that are typically identified with, respectively,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-02
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Heinrich Heine war nicht zu allen Zeiten ein so kanonisierter und unangefochtener Autor wie heute. Das Buch skizziert sein Leben und Werk, und vor allem seine facettenreiche Wirkung samt ihren weitreichenden Folgen. Dabei muss es sich auf Karl Kraus und sein berühmtes...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-01
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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
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The Colonial Comedy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-01
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One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.Along with the Tale of Genji andOne Hundred Poets,One Poem Each, The Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-01
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The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah.The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries.The...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-09-01
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In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another?In a poet’s...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Ein Zeichen sind wir, deutungslos. Schmerzlos sind wir und haben fast / Die Sprache in der Fremde verloren. So beginnt Friedrich Hölderlins Hymne, die dem Gedächtnis gilt, der Göttin der Erinnerung, Mnemosyne. Dieses Buch will den Dichter der Dichter erinnern und das,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Schiller gilt als Klassiker eingemauert in das Gefängnis seiner Überzeitlichkeit. Aber kein anderer ist so sehr Zeitgenosse aller Zeiten gewesen wie er. Er hat die Beben der Französischen Revolution vor ihrem Ausbruch gespürt, hat den Aufstand einer jungen Generation...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book reveals for the first time the import of a huge network of connections between Tennessee Williams and the country closest to his heart, Italy.
America's most thought-provoking playwright loved Italy more than any other country outside the US and was deeply...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-31
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Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-31
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Wichtiger Baustein zur deutschen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. In repräsentativer Auswahl werden die zentralen Werke aus allen Gattungen und Genres der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der SBZ/DDR vorgestellt. Mit ausführlicher Bibliografie erschließt der Band den aktuellen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This volume looks at a key component of recent US foreign relations, namely, its emphasis on «hearts and minds» as part of its cultural management of the global Other. The authors collected here analyze to what extent we can frame the intent and consequences of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-31
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