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Film Distribution in the Digital Age critically examines the evolution of the landscape of film distribution in recent years. In doing so, it argues that the interlocking ecosystem(s) of media dissemination must be considered holistically and culturally if we are to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-15
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The potential of video games as storytelling media and the deep involvement that players feel when they are part of the story needs to be analysed vis-à-vis other narrative media. This book underscores the importance of video games as narratives and offers a framework...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-15
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Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-13
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-10
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Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school. Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-10
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This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-10
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Between Two Fires is about the transnational movement of poetry during the Cold War. Beginning in the 1950s, it examines transnational engagements across the Iron Curtain, reassessing US poetry through a consideration of overlooked radical poets of the mid-century, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-10
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A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-09
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A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art. Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman art Contributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-09
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama;...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-08
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Robert Walser gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Prosa-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl er mit seinen Romanen »Geschwister Tanner«, »Der Gehülfe« und »Jakob von Gunten« in Literatenkreisen früh eine gewisse Bekanntheit erwarb, bewegte sich Walser Zeit seines...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2015-09-07
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This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-01
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Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic experience. In a series of surprising readings, Hannah Freed-Thall frees...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-09-01
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The transcripted conversations that represent the substance of this volume are the result of a research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council.The product of nearly three years of interviews conducted with senior religious figures...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-31
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Der Band betrachtet Wechselwirkungen im deutsch-rumänischen Kulturfeld aus drei verschiedenen Perspektiven: zum einen aus der Perspektive der Übersetzung als Vermittler von Literatur, zum anderen aus der Perspektive interkultureller und imagologischer Sichtweisen in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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In diesem Band werden neue Ergebnisse vorgestellt, die anlässlich des 700. Geburtstages Giovanni Boccaccios 2013 im interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen Literaturwissenschaftlern, Historikern, Sozial- und Medienwissenschaftlern in Marburg ausgetauscht wurden. Vor allem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Die Vieldeutigkeit des Dom Juan ist in postmodernen Zeiten oft betont worden, doch ist sie Folge eines Tabus. Das Tabu lautet, dass Molière den in seiner Komödie über fünfzig Mal evozierten Ciel auf keinen Fall in spöttisches Licht setzen wollte. So wird der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to Didymos of Alexandria...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde».The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies. UtilizingShakespeare’s European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de Vega, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-28
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