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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the "geopolitical aesthetic" continue to resonate today? Crossing literary criticism,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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Maciej Ganczar beschäftigt sich in seinem Buch mit den romantischen Künstlerfiguren Peter Härtlings, die seiner Meinung nach ihrer Epoche weit voraus sind und deren Gemeinsamkeiten mit denjenigen der Moderne auf einen neuen universalen Künstlertypus schließen lassen....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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Der historische Tasso ist mehr als stoffgeschichtliche Quelle für Goethes Drama. Mit kenntnisreicher EinfMit kenntnisreicher Einfühlung in das Krisenhafte einer historischen Spätzeit hat Goethe den italienischen Renaissancedichter zum Sinnbild für die gesellschaftliche,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which took place at...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-15
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Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-01-12
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Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-08
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Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-07
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This book explores the paradoxical productivity of the idea of the end of the novel in contemporary fiction. It shows how this idea allows some of our most significant twenty-first century writers to re-imagine the ethics and politics of literature and to figure...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Das Buch hat die Beschreibung der folgenden fünfzehn Bantusprachen bzw. -dialekte zum Inhalt, die an der Küste Kameruns gesprochen werden: K?le, Mboko, Mokpe, Bubia, Isubu, Mongo, Pongo, Duala, Oli, Bidiman, Mulimba, Batanga, Ban?h?, Bapuku und Yasa. Diese Sprachen bzw....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Schriftsteller wie Johann Christoph Rost, Christian Ludwig Liscow, Salomon Geßner oder Garlieb Helwig Merkel, die heute nur noch Literaturhistorikern bekannt sind, avancierten während ihrer Schaffenszeit zu Bestsellerautoren; ihren Werken bescheinigten die Zeitgenossen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (University of Lleida) in 2013 and attended by participants representing different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-06
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This groundbreaking book attempts a fully contextualized reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s BC. It argues that the victory odes and other occasional songs composed by Pindar for the Sicilian tyrant were part of an extensive...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives is about the fusion of media and narrative, and explores theoretical and practical dimensions of young people’s engagement with contemporary forms of text. It...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-30
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Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-23
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Polish culture after 1989 has been defined by conflicts surrounding the remnants of modernity, phenomena marginalised during communism. The book considers two such phenomena: the search for a common tradition and the disappearance of utopia. Throughout the 19th and 20th...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-23
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This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range of her most famous stories from different viewpoints. The book elaborates on Mansfield's themes and techniques, thereby guiding the reader - via close...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-22
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Le vicende storiche dalla dittatura di Mussolini fino allo scoppio e termine della II Guerra Mondiale con i primi anni della ricostruzione postbellica fanno da macrosfondo al rapporto d'amicizia epistolare tra due intellettuali italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti,...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-12-22
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