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This book analyses travel texts aimed at the emergent Irish middle classes in the long nineteenth century. Unlike travel writing about Ireland, Irish travel writing about foreign spaces has been under-researched. Drawing on a wide range of neglected material and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilization as degenerate and despicable, happily marching to its own doom? Why...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Der Autor thematisiert die Funktion der Tropologie in Origenes’ Hermeneutik und Exegese. Er behandelt dessen Tropus-Begriff, Methodologie und Zeichentheorie. In diesem Kontext klärt er die Methode des Alexandriners, biblische Ausdrücke nach dem heuristischen Prinzip der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-13
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This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-11
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Ecocriticism bezeichnet aktuelle kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Ansätze, die die Beziehungen zwischen dem Menschen und seiner Umwelt sowie ihre Transformationen in der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte untersuchen. Der Band stellt ausführlich die Geschichte des...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-05-10
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Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears inDante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-06
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Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage historicizes and scrutinizes the unstable concept of toleration as it emerges in drama performed on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages. Brian Walsh examines plays by Shakespeare and his...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-06
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This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-06
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Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears inDante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-05
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Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-05
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Shaul Bassi is Associate
Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of
Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions
of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-04
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This book argues for a new reading of the political and ethical through the literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay from 1970-2000. Carlos Amador reads a series of examples from the last dictatorship and the current post-dictatorship period in the Southern Cone,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-04
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Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage historicizes and scrutinizes the unstable concept of toleration as it emerges in drama performed on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages. Brian Walsh examines plays by Shakespeare and his...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-03
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Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Seán O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theology, and rematerialism and performance, the essays incorporate recent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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In The Plausible World , the intersections of literature and cartography enable readers to understand that place is anything but purely geographic: a plausible world is created as a strategy to fill the void. Innovative in his approach, Westphal challenges the view that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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The first critical monograph to benefit from the textual rigour of Archie Burnett's landmark edition ofThe Complete Poems (2012), Radical Larkin celebrates Larkin's technical genius by offering seven in-depth analyses of the stylistic strategies he used to create eleven...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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