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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS
General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of theGreek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancientGreek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of theGreek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Caligula reveals some aspects of the existential notion of 'the absurd' by portraying an emperor so mighty and so desperate in his search for freedom that he inevitably destroys gods, men and himself. The dramatic impetus of Cross Purpose, however, comes from the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-31
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"All roads lead to Johannesburg," remarks the narrator of Alan Paton's novel Cry, The Beloved Country. Taking this quote as her impetus, Loren Kruger guides readers into the heart of South Africa's largest city. Exploring a wide range of fiction, film, architecture,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-30
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Modernism and melancholia share an intellectual fate: being at once categories, conditions, discourses, modes of expression, and social projects, they feed on their own ambiguity. But modernism and melancholia also share a history: it was in the cultural-historical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-30
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Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-10-29
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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The Artistry of Exile is a new reading of one of the most important themes of nineteenth-century literature. Exile represents a crisis in the always present tension between self and culture, the disturbance of memory, the quest for home, and the survival or not of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-24
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This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-23
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The first book-length treatment of James Joyce's work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This intersection raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, and the construction of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-23
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An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-10-23
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Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-23
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Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-22
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This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-21
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How can war be represented on stage?How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and explore their transformation of societies? Springing from the discussion about 'New Wars' in the age of globalisation, this interdisciplinary study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-18
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Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-17
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The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-16
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Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-11
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A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-10-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-10
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Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-09
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