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This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge.This book argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-18
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This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context.This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-17
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Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-03
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This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-01
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This book breaks the assumption that the racial tension the in 9/11 novels lies solely in the dynamic between “Americans” and “terrorists.” It also interrogates post-9/11 constructions of whiteness and the treatment of African-American characters.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-27
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This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author’s comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-23
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Jane Austen’s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-22
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This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-13
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This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-06
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This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-02
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has'...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
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This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book is about the role that the imperfect, the disquieting and the dystopian are currently playing in the construction of Irish identities. All the essays assess identity issues that require urgent examination, problematize canonical definitions of Irishness and,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends—and for their largely working-class readership—long after those works’ original publication. It examines how the literature of the British...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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The book examines the perception of the organist as the most influential musical figure in Victorian society through the writings of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning. This will be the first book in the burgeoning area of research into the relationship of music and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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Die Tragikomödie, verstanden als Kombination von Tragik und Komik im Drama, ist eine von der zeitgenössischen Literaturwissenschaft relativ wenig beachtete Gattung. Dabei bietet sie ein heuristisches Modell, das oft übersehene Zusammenhänge in der europäischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-01-06
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