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This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers a wide range of subjects,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-23
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Ancient Cultures
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Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-19
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These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-19
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The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-18
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From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle produced a wealth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-18
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From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle produced a wealth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-18
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This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature. Connecting the theory of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-17
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Ostdeutsche Kinder- und Jugendbuchautoren waren nach der Wende gänzlich neuen Produktionsbedingungen ausgesetzt. «Der Kapitalismus muss gelernt werden ...» So formulierte es 2010 die ehemalige Cheflektorin des Kinderbuchverlags der DDR Katrin Pieper. Selbst renommierten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-16
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Christoph Martin Wieland war einer der umstrittensten Autoren des 18. Jahrhunderts. Fand er bei den Zeitgenossen zunächst überwiegend Akzeptanz, geriet er unter den Angriffen der Klassiker und mehr noch der Romantiker als «frivol», «unmännlich» und vor allem als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-15
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The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-12
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By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-12
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Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-11
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Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-11
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-10
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The volume is an attempt to read William Faulkner’sThe Sound and the Fury while bearing in mind three phenomenological philosophies of death as proposed by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas.The literary analysis mainly reveals how Benjy senses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-10
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Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-09
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This book won the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History (2013) This book focuses on the literary contribution made by the pugilistic writing of Pierce Egan (c. 1772-1849), identifying the elements that rendered Egan’s style distinctive and examining the ways...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-09
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This study is the first monograph on the Scottish writer Brian McCabe. It focuses mainly on McCabe’s fiction and on the elements in his writing that allow for a redefinition of individual and national identity. The book opens with an examination of the socio-cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-08
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