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In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-12-03
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Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-03
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Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns. Unsettling, indeed critical, for...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-11-30
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The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativity. Moving from the Post-Independence period to the Contemporary era, Byars-Nichols re-centers a marginalized group...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-11-29
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Tonal music, from a historical perspective, is far from homogenous; yet an enduring feature is a background "diatonic" system of exactly seven notes orderable cyclically by fifth. What is the source of the durability of the diatonic system, the octave of which is...
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Springer
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2013-11-29
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This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Thomas Manns Romantetralogie Joseph und seine Brüder ist zeitlich inmitten der literarischen Moderne situiert. Doch die narrative, traditionell anmutende Struktur des Joseph-Romans stellt ihn auf den ersten Blick ins Abseits der innovativen literarischen Entwicklungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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The modern age has further expanded on the multifaceted character of English, which is used not only in many places in the world, but also by a variety of users in numerous contexts. Technical innovations have led to the rise of new registers and offered scholars new...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to linguistics and philosophy of science, offering readers the tools to conduct the interdisciplinary investigation of...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-25
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With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-11-22
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For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status as a passionate defender of the Welsh nation, scholars have followed his lead in emphasising the Welsh credentials and dimensions of his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-21
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Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-19
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In 1898, both Cuba and the Philippines achieved their independence from Spain and then immediately became targets of US expansionism. This book presents a comparative analysis of late-nineteenth-century literature and history in Cuba and the Philippines, focusing on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Die französische Historiographie des von Revolutionen geprägten 20. Jahrhunderts vermag in besonderer Weise neue Perspektiven auf das Revolutionsbild in Büchners Geschichtsdrama zu eröffnen.Die Diskussion über «Dantons Tod» in der Büchnerforschung wiederum spiegelt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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«Die Kinder des Geistes werden schnell und mit Vergnügen gezeuget;» schreibt Christoph Martin Wieland im April 1758 an seinen Freund, den Mediziner Johann Georg Zimmermann, «aber dann folget viel Mühe und Arbeit, sie zu bilden, zu polieren und zur Reiffe zu bringen.»...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the difficulty of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Die von Otto von Thüringen begonnene und von Peter von Zittau vollendete Chronik von Königsaal, Chronicon Aulae regiae, gehört zu den bedeutendsten spätmittelalterlichen Geschichtsquellen Böhmens, die auch für die deutsche Reichsgeschichte von großer Relevanz ist.Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory.New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-19
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