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Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-26
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Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-26
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The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 1801 and 1802do not entirely cohere with the numerous relative time references in the novel if, as scholarship contends, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-22
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This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in KateChopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in thelate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of hernovels and numerous short stories, Kate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-13
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This study provides a new model for the construction of mentalities and intermental thought of characters in playscripts. It introduces a model that facilitates the analysis of the construction of consciousness, instances of collective thought, and the dynamics of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-04-03
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At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-03
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A scholarly exploration of Elmore Leonard—provides original essays and fresh insights on the author’s works and influence Labelled as "the closest thing America has to a national novelist," Elmore Leonard's clean and direct writing, engaging bad guys, and deadpan humor...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-02-17
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The new edition ofThe Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald'sThe Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-02-17
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How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, Genre and White Supremacy in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-28
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Winner of the 2020 C. Hugh Holman Award
William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-26
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Winner of the 2020 C. Hugh Holman Award
William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-26
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How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, Genre and White Supremacy in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-21
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Poe’s Difference argues that Edgar Allan Poe has much more in common with early American, medieval, and ancient writers than with the modern and post-modern ones with whom the writer is so often associated. This book emphasizesPoe’s anachronisms to make a number of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-10-25
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $181.85).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-08-26
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This book studies the complex relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the general framework of the culture and politics of time. It argues that notwithstanding a postmodern tendency towards the spatialization of experience,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-08-14
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The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-06
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The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and description? Or is it...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism, and the pursuit of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-05
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Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-05-15
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Seit Benno von Wieses Werkmonographie und Harry Mayncs Biographie Immermanns sind fast 50 beziehungsweise 100 Jahre vergangen, so daß eine neue Biographie, deren Fehlen Friedrich Sengle schon 1971 monierte, dringend notwendig erscheint. Durch die Veröffentlichung der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-04-15
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