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Die Zeit um 1800 war nicht nur eine politische, gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Schwellenzeit, sondern auch eine poetologische und poetische Umbruchszeit. Der Orient spielt für die romantischen Dichter und Denker als Medium der Imagination und Reflexion sowie als...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-05
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The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris.The plays in this volume - Cinna,The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but...
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Penguin
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2013-07-04
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Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-04
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing.The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-07-04
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing.The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-04
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The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-03
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Questo studio, premettendo un’analisi del Coriolanus come opera politica aperta, indaga un corpus di adattamenti del testo, appartenenti alla cultura tedesca, sottolineando il loro essere, al contempo, atti estetici e atti politici, fortemente implicati e funzionanti...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-02
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Again firmly rooted in Leonard Talmy’s Cognitive Semantics, this new study moves beyond the analysis of single schematic systems in language contributing to the linguistic task of conceptual integration. It investigates for the first time effects of linking up Force...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-02
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Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet street by St Paul's Cathedral in London, where, far from their native Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements and myriad social conventions of 1920s English society.From their well-meaning...
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E-Penguin
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2013-07-01
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This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-28
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Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-27
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Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-27
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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,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-27
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Alone in her farmhouse at night, Georgie hears noises out on the highway – car doors, voices, weeping. She's recently widowed and a little spooked. It's not just her – the entire world feels wrong, as if the land beneath her feet is dying. It hasn't rained for years....
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-06-26
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This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact on feminist theory and practice. Susan Sellers, a major scholar on Cixous, provides a lucid account of Cixous's...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots. But, as Paul Grimstad shows, the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit of earlier experiments inAmerican literature.
Ralph Waldo...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-26
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In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-06-26
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This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-25
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This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-06-25
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