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By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age. The epistemological link between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-22
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This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-22
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This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction. It argues that contemporary Gothic is not simply a secularised genre, but rather one that engages creatively – and often subversively – with theological texts and traditions.This creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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Der Dichter Klopstock hatte einen überwältigenden Erfolg von kurzer Dauer. Er erfand eine lyrische Masche, die er in Weiterführung Miltons episch verankerte. Damit entsprach er für einen Moment in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts, gleichzeitig mit Baumgartens Begründung...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book examines how the Irish environmental movement, which began gaining momentum in the 1970s, has influenced and been addressed by contemporary Irish writers, artists, and musicians. It examines Irish environmental writing, music, and art within their cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-19
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Das Stichwort „Romantik“ wird Ende 1798 von Novalis erfunden, der das Modell der „Romantischen Poesie“ als welterzeugendes und weltbeschreibendes, genetisch-generisches Verfahren fasst. „Romantik“ ist nicht nur die Lehre von einer literarischen Form, des „Romans“, und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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Mit seinen Texten geht Rainer Maria Rilke der Spur einer ‚Essenz‘ des Lebens nach. In seinen Werken ist die Überzeugung eingeschrieben, dass das Kunstwerk eine metaphysische Wahrheit transportiert, die sich jedoch ihrerseits schwer fassen lässt und beständig „im...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-12
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This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s intellectual legacy in Britain and America from 1834 to 1934 by focusing on his late role as the Sage of Highgate and his programme of educating young minds who were destined for the higher professions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-08
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As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-29
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2018 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2017 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Ralf Rothmann, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Hanns Zischler und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Es beinhaltet weiterhin...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-27
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This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers during the nineteenth century. Challenging the idea that Schelling’s reception was limited to the Romantics, this book shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-18
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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
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In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, wie geografische Räume in den primär mündlich geprägten Lebenswelten des Mittelalters wahrgenommen und das Wissen darüber kommuniziert werden konnten. Am Beispiel eines überschaubaren Raumausschnitts werden die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-09
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This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-08
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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-08
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