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What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series?What should we make of stories involving time travellers who change the past, recurrence of a single day, foreknowledge of the future, the freezing or rewinding of time, or time-series which...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-19
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Der Autor erörtert übersetzungswissenschaftliche Probleme des literarischen Textes und definiert die diesen Begriff konstituierenden Faktoren – Indexikalität, Interkulturalität, Intersemiotizität und Intertextualität in der medialen Ära. In der Analyse poetischer Texte...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-19
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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature. World famous overnight, he was translated into numerous languages. Meanwhile, in Slovenia, a young, still anonymous poet felt strongly drawn to the newly available works of the Indian bard. This young...
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OUP India
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2016-02-18
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George Orwell remains an iconic figure today – even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people’s lives – and, not surprisingly, it became a constant...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Beyond Borders compiles essays from various authors who explore the queerness of young adult literature that contains lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning characters, some written by LGBTQ identified authors, while presenting lessons for secondary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Blackwell Guides to Criticism
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Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-12
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Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of their careers, from their births in 1865 up to 1903. The argument consists of parallel readings wed to a biographic structure. Reading the two poets in parallel often yields...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-12
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The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumour, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus's Lingua, in which both the subjective and political consequences of an idle...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-12
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Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth is a study of the cultural connections between two of the nineteenth century's most influential figures,Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. When Darwin presented On the Origin of Species, his reading public's...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-12
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Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of their careers, from their births in 1865 up to 1903. The argument consists of parallel readings wed to a biographic structure. Reading the two poets in parallel often yields...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-11
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The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-11
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This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-09
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Fachleute aus den Bereichen der Germanistik und Komparatistik verfolgen in diesem Sammelband neue Forschungsansätze zu Hermann Bahr. Sie untersuchen Diskurse über Kaiserreich und Königtum, Krise und Kritik, Kairos und Katastrophe, Krieg und Kultur in den Essays und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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'It's never too late to have a fling, for autumn is just as nice as spring . . .'Christopher Matthew's latest collection of canny comic verse negotiates the perils and pitfalls of romance in later years. Love is revealed in the most unlikely places, with the most...
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Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2016-02-04
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Aspects of the Novel is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter. 'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential elements as he...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2016-02-04
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The way detectives access and attain the 'truth' about a crime is an important indicator of how they relate to contemporary political developments. This book explores these methods of detection and positions the genre in a specific political, aesthetic, narrative and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-04
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Poetics en Passant presents a 'cross-channel' poetics that redefines the relationship between 'Victorian' and 'modern' poetry by understanding Christina Rossetti's poetics of 'stealth' as an important counterpart to Baudelairean 'shock.'
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-03
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This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-02
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Dickens, Religion and Society examines the centrality of Dickens's religious attitudes to the social criticism he is famous for, shedding new light in the process on such matters as the presentation of Fagin as a villainous Jew, the hostile portrayal of trade unions in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-02
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