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A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-30
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Critical Theory Handbooks
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From the author of BETWEEN THE STOPS and TOKSVIG'S ALMANACSandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor and seeker of all things whimsical - has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph for many...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2013-01-24
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Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the period when Wilde was judged by many to be 'at his best', and Blacker went on to become a trustee of Wilde's marriage...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-24
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Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-17
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Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-12
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How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of literature and bureaucracy dismisses Weber's 'neurocrat'. Milton, Trollope and Hare are case studies on implementing the 'what...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-11
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According to the law of the jungle, the behavior of wild animals can be equated with natural human instincts not only for competition and reproduction, but also for violence and exploitation. Drawing on numerous novels and cultural events at the turn of the twentieth...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-01-10
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No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A belief in art as a law unto itself is central to the work of many writers from the late nineteenth century to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-01-10
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Kleists Dramen- und Erzählfiguren, Männer und besonders Frauen, wiederauferstanden aus Krisen, erstehen als Retter und Helden des Guten und Wahren auch im Erliegen gegen die Gewalttätigkeit von Männern und Mächten.Kleists Eroberer-, Autoritäts- und Ideologiekritik...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-09
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Die Nibelungen – große europäische Sage, Mythos um Aufstieg und Untergang, Liebe und Hass, Treue und Verrat. Kaum eine andere Geschichte hat Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik im deutschsprachigen Raum derart geprägt wie diese. Entstanden als Teil der europäischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-09
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Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-08
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This volume explores the expansion of audiovisual translation studies and practices within European institutions, universities and businesses. The wide variety of contributions from researchers and practitioners from different countries and backgrounds reflects the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-08
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Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-07
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Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-07
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-01-03
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Die Arbeit untersucht anhand der mittelenglischen Romanzen die Etablierung des Englischen als Literatursprache im Spätmittelalter. Vor dem Hintergrund kontinentaler und insularer französischer Vorlagen prägt sich eine volkssprachliche Literaturgattung aus, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-03
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Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-27
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The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-27
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