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Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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Frances Weetman's writing challenges the basis of current economic thinking. She shows how economics does not have true scientific credibility and how excessive confidence in what is actually a belief system may be having disastrous effects not only on our economy but...
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Virago
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2017-02-02
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love,...
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Penguin
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2016-11-24
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-11-03
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A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush.These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent.Each of these varied contributors - settlers, explorers, anthropologists,...
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E-Penguin
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2016-10-31
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**THE BRILLIANT & IRREVERENT GUIDE FROM AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND STAR OF THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE AND JOE LYCETT'S GOT YOUR BACK **Also seen on Epic Win, The Time it Takes, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster. He's seen everywhere in fact. 'Joe is...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-10-20
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'Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WARNER, INDEPENDENT 'With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right' GUARDIAN'Her writing occupies a unique...
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Virago
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2016-10-06
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Virago Modern Classics
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'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to...
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Penguin
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2016-10-06
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Qu’est-ce que penser ?Qu’est-ce que la pensée ? Ce que nous évoquons habituellement comme notre chance, cette capacité incomparable qui nous distingue des animaux, George Steiner en interroge les effets sur nos vies et tente de comprendre quelques-unes des raisons qui...
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Albin Michel
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2016-10-01
Collection :
Bibliothèque Albin Michel Michel des idées
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Die Situierung des Romans Der Prozess im französischen Buchhandel entbehrt nicht einer gewissen kafkaesken Note: Bis zum heutigen Tag sind fünf unterschiedliche Versionen von Kafkas vielleicht berühmtestem Werk in französischer Sprache erhältlich. Kafka in Frankreich —...
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innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity.
Cillian O'Hogan setsPrudentius in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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