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Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775-1817) can be said to be the most widely studied author in the history of English literature. But unlike Shakespeare, her language has received little scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her letters....
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-22
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Die Ereignisse nach dem 11. September 2001 und die jüngsten gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche im Nahen Osten, der Irak-Krieg, der Bürgerkrieg in Syrien, der fortdauernde Konflikt in Afghanistan, aber auch die interkulturellen Probleme innerhalb Deutschlands machen deutlich,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-22
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The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowicz’s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context.The research extends to English and American literary traditions in order to account for the ways the writer’s version of existentialism is interpreted in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-22
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By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-22
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-21
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Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-20
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-16
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Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-16
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Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, André Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-01-13
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Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-13
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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism onVictorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Critical Reader
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Die Goethezeit gehört zu den glanzvollsten Epochen der deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte. Dieses Studienbuch vermittelt Studierenden der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft übersichtlich und klar strukturiert die Epoche der Goethezeit. Auf der Basis der aktuellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study analyses how these authors employ tropes and myths of childhood in their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising interrelations between the arts, and this book offers a discussion of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Nicholas Breton (1545/55-1626?) was one of the most prolific writers of the Early Modern period and left behind a vast œuvre that is, however, largely neglected today. Breton addresses instrumental questions of his time, especially those of man’s identity. This study...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice. Fanny wanted urgently to know whether she should continue encouraging her most ardent suitor, what the future would hold were she to marry him, and whether she, Fanny,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-09
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Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction and, conversely, how science fiction sheds light not only on theory of mind but also empathy, morality, and the nature of our humanity.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-01-06
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Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-06
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