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The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists. This book investigates the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-08-08
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When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-08-01
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This book explores the complex relationship between literature and dance in the era of modernism. During this period an unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place, based on a common aesthetics initiated by contemporary discussions of the body and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-01
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A tide of newfound prosperity swept through America as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Modernity had arrived. Yet amid this climate of progress, concerns over the perils of modernity and civilization began to creep into the national consciousness....
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Oxford University Press
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2013-08-01
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Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically. Chapters explore literary journalism not only in the United Kingdom, the United States and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-08-01
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It is his clear-sightedness, his candour, his steely strength of will, the immediacy of his writing, his insolence and cynicism, his love of liberty, his hatred of hypocrisy, his originality, his rational enlightened toughness which attached Byron to the present age as...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-07-31
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In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-31
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In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution. ...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-31
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Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-31
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This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled examples. The program is tailored to meet the specific needs of beginning undergraduates. Features unique, detailed guidance...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-29
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This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-29
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Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancientRoman letters spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-29
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This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-26
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Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-26
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Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed.
In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-25
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Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed.
In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-25
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A Who's Who of Ab Fab over-50s (and their pets, pet hates, wines, menus, travels, cliches, rants, ravings, songs, dances, films, books, fairy tales, passions, villains, recipes, Shangri-Las, sports, collections and liaisons dangereuses...which keep them young!)...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2013-07-25
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Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-25
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Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-25
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Die Untersuchung umfasst drei Teile: Im ersten Teil liegt der Schwerpunkt auf einer Darstellung und Diskussion der Forschungsgeschichte und des Forschungsstandes zum kinder- und jugendliterarischen Phantastikbegriff. Zudem wird eine Abgrenzung zu benachbarten Textsorten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-24
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