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The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-12
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This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are dialogically interconnected. The dialogic resonances in the presentation of character consciousness are analysed using...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-09
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Assuming the role of the African American griotte of her generation, Gloria Naylor seeks to recover and remember the eroded history of female archetypes in order to overcome the pain that a patriarchal, misogynist society has caused for Black women. Through revisiting...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-08
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Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and ’60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-08
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Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Drawing from recent research that seeks to expand our understanding of modernism, this volume offers practical pedagogical approaches for teaching modernist literature and culture in the twenty-first century classroom.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn, and genres including lyric poetry, drama, prose fiction,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
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Goethes spätes Weltbild, das wesentlich vom Phänomen des Dämonischen geprägt ist, wird in diesem Buch als Ausgangspunkt für bestimmte Ideenräume der modernen Theorie- und Diskursbildung gesehen. Es wird gezeigt, wie sich die Goethesche Vision des Dämonischen auf den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-07
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The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. This book...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-06
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Das anhaltende öffentliche Interesse am Mittelalter schlägt sich aktuell stark in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur nieder. Im akademischen und schulischen Bereich wird diesem Phänomen hingegen nur selten Rechnung getragen.Das Buch lotet aus, wie viel «Mittelalter» durch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-06
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With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of gender performativity and her writings on corporeality, on the injurious capacity of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-03
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-05-03
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A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence’s plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-05-03
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Diese Arbeit widmet sich der spätmittelalterlichen Erzählliteratur Islands, wie sie in den sogenannten Märchen- und Abenteuersagas in Erscheinung tritt. Die Untersuchung stellt diese etablierte Gattungseinteilung in Frage und schlägt eine Neustrukturierung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Der Band enthält die Beiträge von drei Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Vorträge der Sektion Aufgaben der Erforschung der Mittleren Deutschen Literatur bzw. der Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (betreut und bearbeitet von Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Michael...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Die Hörspiele Heiner Müllers galten in der Forschung bislang als eher unbedeutende Nebenprodukte seiner Theatertexte. Dieses Buch rückt das Hörspiel dagegen in den Mittelpunkt der Forschung und kommt zu einer völligen Neubewertung dieser Arbeiten. Ihnen wird eine hohe...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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