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Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism – the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime – this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-25
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The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice.The years 1921-1939...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-25
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The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice.The years 1921-1939...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in EnglishRomantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-23
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In dieser Studie werden jene Personen der Öffentlichkeit in Erinnerung gebracht, die die Kriminalität des staatlich institutionalisierten Nationalsozialismus innerhalb der deutschen Volksgruppen in Rumänien, Ungarn und dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien unterstützten und die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Diese Arbeit untersucht die Leitmotive des literarischen Schaffens SAIDs – Politik, Liebe, Religion – und zwar sowohl in den lyrischen Texten als auch in den Prosaschriften. Der aus dem Iran stammende Autor betrachtet die deutsche Sprache als das ihm angemessene Mittel,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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The 150th anniversary of Ireland’s Great Famine in the 1990s generated a significant increase in scholarship on the history of the crisis and its social and cultural aftermath. Two decades later, interest in the Irish Famine – both scholarly and popular – has soared...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Crime Scenes: ModernCrime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-22
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Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-18
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'Rather jolly and very helpful’ The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader alike. ...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-09-18
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Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-18
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Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprún, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
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At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-16
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The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-16
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This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-16
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This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content;...
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Springer
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2014-09-12
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This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-11
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Encrypting the Past puts forward the interpretative category of the first-generation German-Jewish Holocaust novel and examines its representational strategies. With reference to works by H.G. Adler, Jenny Aloni, Elisabeth Augustin, Erich Fried, and Wolfgang...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-11
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The book approaches law from the legal-linguistic perspective. Its aim is to clarify the processes in which the meaning of law emerges in legal discourses. In order to enable the understanding of law as a discursive practice, professional and non-professional discourses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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