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In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue; by the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticized form, abandoning sublimity in favour of the bucolic fantasy propagated by George Borrow and the founding...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-16
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Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-15
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This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-14
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In historischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Jugendromanen über Auswanderung, Flucht und Vertreibung, soweit in den letzten Jahren erschienen, spielt das Thema des Heimatverlustes eine zentrale Rolle. Es geht in diesen Texten allerdings um mehr als nur den äußeren Vorgang...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-14
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This book shows the evolution of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a famous and innovative dictionary for native speakers of English. It traces changes in the dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from each edition, the author provides insights into...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-14
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In recent decades, and in particular as a result of global climate change, the significance of the Arctic has radically shifted, from a remote periphery to a region of intensifying political and academic interest and of conflicting interests. This collection of texts...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-10-14
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Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit den Formen und Funktionen von Sprachmischungen zwischen dem Englischen und dem Deutschen der Gegenwart. Als Datengrundlage dient ein synchrones Pressekorpus aus 52 Ausgaben des Nachrichtenmagazins Der Spiegel, das seit den 1960ern immer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-14
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Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-10
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Looking at the works of the Brontë sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontës as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-09
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This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were expressed through the pursuit of leisure. Focusing on stories about hiking, camping and sailing, this book offers a fresh...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-07
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The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-06
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Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on issues of genre,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-01
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In The Unsettlement of America, Anna Brickhouse explores the fascinating career and ambivalent narrative legacy of Paquiquineo, a largely forgotten Native translator of the early modern Atlantic world. Encountered by Spanish explorers in 1561 near the future site of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-01
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Pringle presents his selections in chronological order and includes a synopsis of the story, a discussion of the author's overall contribution to fantasy literature, critical commentary on the title's significance, and a brief publishing history. An introductory essay...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2014-09-30
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Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by the author -...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-09-30
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This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-29
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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-26
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