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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....
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-27
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Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-23
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Fictional depictions of intermarriage can illuminate perceptions of both 'ethnicity' and 'whiteness' at any given historical moment. Popular examples such as Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Joanna and John in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Toula and Ian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-23
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The diminishment of rural life at the hands of urbanization, for many, defines the years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the twentieth century in the U.S. Traditional literary histories find this transformation clearly demarcated between rural...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-12-22
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Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-12-21
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The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne's full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne's Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet fearful of the nothingness he...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-12-19
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More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2012-12-17
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Noch immer umgibt Samuel Becketts Werke der Nimbus des Rätselhaften – trotz aller Bemühungen der Literaturkritik, auch im Rahmen der Neuen Literaturtheorien. Dem entgegen, unternimmt die Studie erstmals eine hermeneutische Untersuchung der Texte. Sie setzt voraus,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-17
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Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-15
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This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-14
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(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-12-13
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the printed page. Novels gained soundtracks, poetry compelled its audiences to sing, and the ostensibly silent act of reading...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-12-12
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An emblematic figure of the 'bourgeois century,' the parvenu represents the Other on which a society depends. This drama of exclusion is symptomatic of nineteenth-century society: ambivalent about social mobility, oscillating between a new sense of opportunity for all...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-11
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Der Band enthält die Beiträge von fünf Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Vorträge der Sektion Koloniale und postkoloniale deutschsprachige Literatur (betreut und bearbeitet von Adjaï Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon, Anna Babka, Axel Dunker) bieten ein breites...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-11
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Der Band enthält die Beiträge von drei Sektionen des Warschauer IVG-Kongresses. Die Vorträge der Sektion Politische Romantik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (betreut und bearbeitet von Ulrich Breuer) bieten Studien, die sich durch unterschiedliche (literatur- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-11
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Mit dieser Arbeit liegt erstmals ein umfangreicher Stellenkommentar zu Wielands Die Abenteuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalva vor, der als erster moderner Roman der deutschen Literatur bezeichnet worden ist. Trotzdem hat er in der Forschung verhältnismäßig wenig...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-11
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This book focuses on ambiguity in Troilus and Criseyde, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s (1343?-1400) representative works. It examines systematically how and why ambiguity is likely to arise. After reviewing previous scholarship on ambiguity in Chaucer, the author proposes a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-11
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From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-10
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Mit dem Siegeszug des Christentums war der Kosmos der antiken Mythologie nicht obsolet geworden. Er lebte fort in den Bildungstraditionen. Um das unterirdische Totenreich entstand dabei ein besonderer Diskurs. Das mythische Szenario hatte mit seinen archaischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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Colour is one of the few remaining uncharted territories of film studies, and its centrality to the construction and reception of film narratives has only recently been recognised. After a century of widespread critical and theoretical neglect, colour is now poised to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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