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With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-14
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Unbounded Attachment is about the uses of the language of sentiment in British women's writing from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen. It focuses on a range of writers for whom this language has the potential to hold together disparate elements in late eighteenth and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-14
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Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature offers the first book-length treatment of the literary return to and reinterpretation of Giraldus Cambrensis's twelfth century The History of the Conquest of Ireland. Writers studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-13
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Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding ofShakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-13
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What was the soul? Christians agreed that it was the immortal core of each human being. Yet there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the body. The Smoke of the Soul explores the anxieties and excitement generated by the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-13
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Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-13
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A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world. Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-11-13
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The classical tradition—the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome—is a large, diverse and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest.The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, coherent and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-11-13
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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-08
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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For the last fifteen years, if a novel was published, John Freeman has been there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers, and in How to Read a Novelist, he shares with...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Despite the apparent ubiquity of light literature, and despite the greater cultural prestige it has been afforded in recent decades, very little has been written on the adjective that actually defines this category. What, precisely, does it signify, and what are some of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done....
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Während in der BRD lange nur die bürgerliche, nationalkonservative Opposition der Männer des 20. Juli akzeptiert wurde, fand in der DDR lediglich der Widerstand der Arbeiter und Kommunisten ungeteilte Anerkennung. Günther Weisenborn hingegen würdigte bereits in seiner...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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In der Geschichte des Friedensnobelpreises hat es vier deutsche Preisträger gegeben: Gustav Stresemann 1926, Ludwig Quidde 1927, Carl von Ossietzky 1936 (für 1935) und Willy Brandt 1971. Diese Preisverleihungen waren stark umstritten und lösten sowohl in Deutschland als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Der historische Roman zählt zu den Erfolgsgattungen der letzten 20 Jahre, doch erst jetzt beginnt die Literaturwissenschaft, sich intensiv mit dieser Entwicklung auseinanderzusetzen.Der Sammelband widmet erfolgreichen Leseklassikern des Genres ausführliche Fallstudien....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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