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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatness and gain lasting fame.
In thisVery Short Introduction,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-29
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What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Die knapp eineinhalb Jahrzehnte nach 1970 erscheinen im Rückblick als eine Art Sattelzeit der deutschen Popmusik: Fast alle maßgeblichen, zukunftsträchtigen Stile, Artikulations- und Inszenierungsweisen des deutschen Pop entwickeln und etablieren sich in diesem...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694. These proto-novelistic fictions are accompanied by a scholarly introduction as well as notes and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-28
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Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-26
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This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world. As the second volume of Chinese Creative Writing Studies, the first of which introduces Chinese creative writing to English-speaking readers, this book expands on the first in...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and...
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Springer
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2024-10-25
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Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic...
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Polity
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2024-10-25
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content. Examining five North and Central American novels from the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-24
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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of “race suicide” and period representations of literary suicide. Against the backdrop of the turn-of-the-century debates over immigration...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-22
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Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for representing and re-thinking literacy itself. This...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-22
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-22
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This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Attending specifically to literature and literary culture, it examines how a particular region—southwest Scotland—was reimagined between 1770 and 1830. Regionalisms were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-22
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This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of Conrad’s conception of human emotions lies in his comprehensive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-18
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Die Zeit der Weimarer Republik steht heute für Kriegszerstörungen, Armut, Gewalt auf den Straßen, Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Inflation genauso wie für eine neue Unterhaltungskultur, Rausch, Dekadenz und revolutionäre Umbrüche in Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft. In diesem...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-18
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The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling.
Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-17
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König Salomo ist schon in der Bibel eine schillernde Figur und wird in außerbiblischer Literatur zum Symbol für eine Vielzahl menschlicher Eigenschaften. Dieses Buch untersucht die Themen und Inhalte, die besonders häufig mit Salomo verknüpft werden. Im Zentrum stehen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-17
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