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Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
Collection :
Themes in History
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Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-04-21
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This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-19
Collection :
Cultural Perception of Shakespeare
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The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-04-19
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Dieser Band geht auf die Konferenz «Interkulturalität und Kognition» zurück, die im Rahmen der Tagung der Gesellschaft ungarischer Germanistinnen und Germanisten (GUG) vom Institut für Germanistik der Universität Debrecen zwischen dem 29. und 30. Mai 2009 veranstaltet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-18
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Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Women and Writing
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This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Theory Now
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Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. A refreshing and accessible investigation...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-12
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Inhalt: Michael Titzmann: Anmerkungen zu Anthropologie(n) in Literatur(en) des 17. Jahrhunderts – Eric Achermann: Selbsterhaltung, Klugheit und Gerechtigkeit. Zur politischen und theologischen Anthropologie in Grimmelshausens Ratio Status – Marco Bunge-Wiechers:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Als Wende- und Umbruchszeit forderte der Übergang zum zwanzigsten Jahrhundert ein Überdenken der Rolle und Funktionsweise von Literatur, in das sich auch das Tagebuch einschreibt, das ihm neue Dimensionen erschließt und zu einer Neudefinierung der Gattung des Tagebuchs...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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I saggi qui raccolti riguardano, nel loro insieme, un solo argomento: l’opera di Francesco Guicciardini, osservata da prospettive volta per volta diverse e, insieme, convergenti. Il senso del libro è racchiuso nel titolo: «mutazione delle cose» e «pensieri nuovi»....
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-04-11
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