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How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sympathy be fundamentally more intuitive, bodily and troubling?
Taking as her focus the work of Virginia Woolf, D.H....
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends inEast Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-26
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A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-26
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This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. Includes a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-25
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Reading the Novel
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This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-25
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouse's two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet ('Reggie') Jeeves, Bertie's friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may seem...
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Robinson
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2013-03-21
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Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text of Lucina’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-21
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Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text of Lucina’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-21
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As an age-old metaphor for the sexual chase, the hunt provides a uniquely conflicted site for the representation of masculinity. On the one hand, hunting had from ancient times served to define a particular and culturally approved mode of masculinity as heroic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE “The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-20
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Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-20
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Die Arbeit ist ein editionsphilologischer Beitrag zur Weiss-Forschung, denn sie erschließt erstmals einen umfangreichen und inhaltlich bisher wenig behandelten Bereich des literarischen Nachlasses von Peter Weiss. Sie ermöglicht damit zugleich eine sorgfältige...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-03-20
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This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis exploring the relation between...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-19
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-18
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Die vierzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs trägt ein weiteres Mal Gedenkjahren Rechnung, die für die Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung von Bedeutung sind: Der im April 2008 begangene 100. Todestag Wilhelm Buschs wird mit einem Beitrag von Hans Ries, dem Autor der kritischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-03-15
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Madly after the Muses examines the use of Graeco-Roman samplings in the Bengali works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873), the nineteenth-century poet and playwright. His oeuvre, which includes a Bengali play dramatizing a Hindu version of the Judgement of Paris, a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-14
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This study re-examines Morgan le Fay in early medieval and contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she embodies the concerns of each era even as she defies social and gender expectations. Hebert uses leFay as a lens to explore traditional ideas of femininity,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
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Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory Updated to feature over 40 new entries...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-08
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