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Fra le molteplici opere di Giacomo Leopardi, scrittore precoce e prolifico come pochi, manca un’autobiografi a: restano i progetti giovanili, abbozzi ricchi di spunti, ispirati a Rousseau e Alfieri, mai portati a termine. Eppure, la «storia di un’anima» di Leopardi...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law in the age of Shakespeare, Milton, Grotius, and Hobbes. Seeking to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of international...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-28
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Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-28
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Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-28
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David Gonski, businessman, philanthropist and patron of the arts, is one of Australia's most successful people, whose name has passed into the language as the author of the Gonski report into education funding.In this collection of mostly unpublished speeches, he writes...
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E-Penguin
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2015-05-27
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This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-27
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This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-27
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This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP' translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards a more realistic understanding of it as a complex and multilayered phenomenon which belies its standard negative binary definition as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-05-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H. G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-25
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This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-24
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Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-20
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Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. Explores the reasons why the traditional...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-05-14
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important developments in modern French poetry: from the post-Commune climate that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-14
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The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-05-14
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Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art. They take us from birth to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-05-14
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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-06
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In diesem Buch wird erstmals der werkübergreifende Walpurgisnacht-Komplex von Johann Wolfgang Goethe in seinem literarhistorischen, poetologischen und ideengeschichtlichen Gesamtzusammenhang erschlossen. Dreimal hat sich Goethe im Laufe seines Lebens mit der Sage vom...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Dieses Buch wurde mit dem Ludger-Schiffler Preis für Fremdsprachendidaktik 2015 ausgezeichnet. Das Buch behandelt mit interkultureller Kompetenzentwicklung ein Thema aus der aktuellen Curricularentwicklung und deren Kompetenz- und Outputorientierung. Die Autorin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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