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This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller, it extends the argument for serious, academic study of crime...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-23
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This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-20
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This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many representations of the attacks on September 11 and their outcomes. Adopting a neorealist stance,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-19
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This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-19
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This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-18
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Im Gedächtnis einer Gesellschaft dürfen die einstigen Chancen und heutigen Gefahren atomarer Energienutzung dauerhafte Aktualität beanspruchen. Mit der literarischen Funktionalisierung des Kernenergiediskurses von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart knüpft Julia von...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-04-11
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This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-04
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This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework. Accordingly, the contributions explore different facets of what we term “Irish minority and dissident identities,” ranging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-03
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This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural narratives have long...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-03
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Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study—i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation—and as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-21
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This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-16
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This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-13
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'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued'One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown masterpiece,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-03-08
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