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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides offers an invaluable guide to the reception of Thucydides, with a strong emphasis on comparing and contrasting different traditions of reading and interpretation. • Presents an in-depth, comprehensive overview of the reception...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-10-28
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Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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"Schwarz's study is chock full of judicious evaluation of characters, narrative devices, ethical commentary, and helpful information about historical and political contexts including the role of Napoleon, the rise of capitalism, trains, class divisions, transformation...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-10-27
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Reading the Novel
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Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry—from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period's major writers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Blackwell Anthologies
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Academic standards in higher education depend on the judgements of individual academics assessing student work; it is in these micro-level practices that the validity and fairness of assessment is constituted. However, the quality of assessments of open-ended tasks like...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Dieser Band umfasst 56 Beiträge in deutscher, englischer und französischer Sprache, die auf dem 44. Linguistischen Kolloquium im September 2009 an der Neuen Bulgarischen Universität in Sofia gehalten wurden. Vortragende aus Europa, Asien und Australien behandelten unter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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Ever since his creation, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled readers. Our perception of him and his faithful companion, Dr Watson, has been shaped by a long line of film, TV and theatre adaptations. This richly illustrated book, compiled by Alex Werner, Head of History...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-10-23
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A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-22
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Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-21
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The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-17
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Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Manche Romantiker drücken Leidenschaft und deren Bändigung mit musikartigen Mitteln aus – hier Friedrich Schlegel und E.T.A. Hoffmann. Die psychologisch versierten Realisten tun es durch den rhythmischen Atem des Erzählens, des Dramas; ferner mit Skepsis, Resignation,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Die gegenwärtige Migrationsliteratur befindet sich im Allgemeinen am Schnittpunkt diverser Komplexitäten, die ihre Wahrnehmung erheblich beeinflussen.Die Konstruktion von und Auseinandersetzung mit Fremdem und Eigenem und insbesondere mit Identität stehen daher im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Dieser Band vereinigt Beiträge zur Deutschen Romantik, zu ihren vielfältigen Transformationen und transgressiven Adaptionen. Auf der einen Seite werden einzelne Aspekte der Philosophie und der Literatur der Früh- und Spätromantik beleuchtet, auf der anderen Seite wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-16
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A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary texts, the five chapters...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Harold Pinter is inarguably one of the most influential modern British dramatists. The horizon of his literary, cultural and political activity stretches far beyond the borders of his homeland, as well as beyond the theatrical and literary world. The essays in this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Shakespeare's Princes of Wales spotlights the surprising abundance of princes of Wales--English and Welsh alike--appearing onstage in the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In drawing our attention to the oft-overlooked and frequently misunderstood Welsh inheritance,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-16
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