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This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-27
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This book is the first dedicated volume of academic analysis on the monumental work of Elena Ferrante, Italy's most well-known contemporary writer. The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins brings together the most exciting and innovative research on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-22
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Das aktuelle Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2015 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Monika Rinck, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Heinrich Detering und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Darüber hinaus enthält das...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-12-20
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This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-15
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„Ein für die Deutung des Gesamtwerks und seiner Forschungsgeschichte unentbehrlicher Orientierungskompaß“, charakterisierte Manfred Durzak die erste Ausgabe dieser Einführung. Auch die aktualisierte und erweiterte dritte Auflage wird diesem Anspruch gerecht: Der Band...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-12-12
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This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the mysteries of Shakespeare’s authorship by way of science.This promise, however, was undermined not only by the antics of its director,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-11
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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-09
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This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-06
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This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and academic study, presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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Since the financial crisis cannot be explained by looking at the ‘numbers’ alone, Judith Schulz investigates the diverse facets of the economic system, including the emotional response and motivations of the actors. It is precisely in this context that fiction can fill...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-16
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Zur jüngsten Kleist-Forschung: Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2012, unter anderem mit der Rede des Preisträgers Navid Kermani. Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der Tagungen "Kleists Briefe" und des Nachwuchskolloquiums Natur im Werk Heinrich von...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book focuses on landscape in the Gothic and the ways landscape both reflects and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges.The legal thriller typically uses court trials...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-10
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This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form.
The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form.
The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-05
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This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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