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This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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This book provides an original account of Emerson's creative debts to the British and European Romantics, including Coleridge and Carlyle, firmly locating them in his New England context. Moreover this book analyses and explains the way that his thought shapes his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism analyses novels of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that explore ethnic and cultural diversity in London. It contributes to key, ongoing debates in literary and cultural studies and, in particular, to debates over the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap inShakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' inShakespeare's canon, focusing especially on the positive personal and social effects of female sexuality, as represented in several major female characters, from the goddess Venus, to the queen Cleopatra, to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-04
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Von Sprachwechslern im Kontext der Einwanderung und des politischen Exils auf den Weg gebracht, hat die interkulturelle deutschsprachige Literatur im Laufe von mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten eine bemerkenswerte Entwicklung durchgemacht, deren Ausdruckspotential bei weitem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zola’s fiction: the question of the author’s family secrets. The novels addressed here present a variety of sub-textual issues highlighting Zola’s sexual insecurity and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a «new specimen of beauty»? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new understanding of Poe's literary significance by considering the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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Die Adoleszenz geht nicht selten mit psychischen Krankheiten einher; mitunter erscheint sie selbst als eine Krankheit, die überwunden werden muss.Die Nähe von Adoleszenz und psychischer Krankheit ist ein prominentes Thema von Jugenderzählungen und Romanen der Zeit um...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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Versprechen sind prekär. Denn nimmt man sie als Worte, verpflichten sie zu Taten. Diese also heiklen Sprechhandlungen sind von literarischem Reiz. Namentlich Bürgschafts- und Fleischpfand-Geschichten verhandeln Versprechen. In einer differenzierenden und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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Als Leser, Herausgeber und Forscher von interkultureller Literatur hat Carmine Chiellino im Laufe von drei Jahrzehnten eine elementare deutschsprachige Terminologie erarbeitet, um über seine Erfahrungen mit der interkulturellen Literatur in Westeuropa und in Nordamerika...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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This volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal of the authority of canonical authors – and also of traditional forms,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-04
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making ofLondon analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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