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This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-17
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Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press andReinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence is a wide-ranging examination of Lawrence's adoption and adaptation of stereotypes about minorities, with a focus on three particular 'racial' groups. This book explores societal attitudes in England, Europe, and the United States and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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This study argues that Conrad portrays Marlow and his relationships with a psychological depth that is unsurpassed in literature. In Youth , Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , he is a continuously-evolving character whose thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are expressions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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Die Literaturkritik hat immer wieder Vertreter des französischen Gegenwartsromans unter den Schlagworten Fin de Siècle und Dekadenz verortet.Die Autorin macht sich die systematische Aufarbeitung dieser meist oberflächlich gebliebenen Annäherung zur Aufgabe. Anhand einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-11
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The deepest crises cannot destroy the universal model of literariness. It maintains its appeal for participants in literary communication as a «contradictory» model. This thought recurs in many epochs. Literariness involves suspending the formal or logical norms of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-11
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Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his Storia Letteraria del Trecento (A Literary History of the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-12-11
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This volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-12-11
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The book provides a complementary view of modernism by investigating Anglo-American little magazines published in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Addressing symbolic and practical aspects of physical location and international themes in the little reviews, it highlights...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-11
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Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-11
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This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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