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Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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New religious movements both read the Bible in creative ways and produce their own texts that aspire to scriptural status. From the creation stories in Genesis and the Ten Commandments to the life of Jesus and the apocalypse, they develop their self-understandings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-24
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This is the first account of Dante's reception in English to address full chronological span of that process. Individual authors and periods have been studied before, but Dante's British Public takes a wider and longer view, using a selection of vivid and detailed case...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-24
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A searing play about the way in which we try to own our dead, and the way in which they come to own us.
A year after the death of their son Jack in an early-morning car crash, Adam and Mary Mansfield are still struggling with what happened. Adam has sold his winery,...
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E-Penguin
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2014-07-23
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John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-17
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Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-17
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Nijáls saga the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-17
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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth -- stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja -- on poetry inEnglish from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day....
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-17
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Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-07-16
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Als Erneuerer des Theaters und mit einem ausgeprägten Hang zum Pessimismus sind Luigi Pirandello und Eugene O’Neill in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen. Entfremdungserscheinungen und das nahezu unausweichliche Scheitern sind wiederkehrende Motive in den Werken...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften is not only a towering masterpiece of German literature but also an impressively rich and razor-sharp assessment of life in the beginning of the twentieth century. Musil can be regarded as one of the most original and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-15
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Anche se gli studi degli ultimi decenni sul «noviziato» foscoliano hanno apportato significative acquisizioni – tanto sul versante politico che su quello letterario – manca ancora una «cartografia» dettagliata che prenda in considerazione i diversi versanti e le zone di...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-15
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The purpose of this volume is to present the scientific background of the Children’s Literature and Translation research group, which was established in 1992 at the University of Vigo. In 2006 it was awarded the category of Excellence Research Group.The scientific...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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The Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1438) offers an illuminating account of late medieval female spirituality, affective devotion and subversion. This study approaches Margery Kempe’s roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families from an interdisciplinary...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Slovak education, including foreign language education, is going through curricular reform. Even though the development of intercultural communicative competences is claimed to be one of the key aims of foreign language teaching, recent research suggests that most...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-10
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Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-10
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This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-10
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Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-08
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