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This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices. By focusing on contemporary narratives in English from 1990 to the present, the essays in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-14
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This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history of the group and its relation to the Latin American literary tradition, while the second...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life?What if my love is not returned?Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life's...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition. Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological science, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-04
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Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Over the course of the century, scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.” In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-30
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This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures.This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-28
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This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-13
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This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-05
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This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how Hardy’s personal relationship to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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Das Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über das Werk Herta Müllers in seiner ganzen thematischen Breite und Vielfalt der Genres. Es richtet das Augenmerk dabei insbesondere auf ästhetische Formgebungsverfahren und poetologische Schreibkonzepte und stellt auch die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought. Rather than seeing blindness as an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-18
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This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-17
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This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-31
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This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-28
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This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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