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Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness. He refused to relinquish this attachment even as corruption and injustice gradually led him to turn against the English government. In a long life, Swift proved a reluctant rebel, though one...
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Penguin
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2016-11-03
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2015 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2014 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Marcel Beyer, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Hortensia Völckers und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger sowie die Beiträge der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-27
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"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this...
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Maclehose Press
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2016-10-13
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The essays in this volume provide an overview and critical account of prevalent trends and theoretical arguments informing current investigations into literary treatments of motherhood and aging. They explore how two key stages in women’s lives—maternity and old age—are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-13
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This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-07
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Ist Martin Walser ein "geistiger Brandstifter", sein Roman 'Tod eines Kritikers' ein antisemitischer Text? Was ist überhaupt "literarischer Antisemitismus"? Der Verfasser zeichnet die für das deutsche Selbstverständnis so signifikante Walser-Debatte nach, um davon...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-06
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This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-05
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Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scènes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comédie humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-04
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Europäer und Wiener, Lyriker und raffinierter Erzähler, erfolgreicher und manchmal packend gescheiterter Dramatiker, weltoffener Essayist und unbequemer Zeitgenosse, sprachmächtiger Sprachskeptiker im Brief des Lord Chandos dieses Handbuch...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-10-03
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In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities and effects of the use of the present tense, as well as investigating the reasons for its popularity. By illustrating the complexity and sophistication of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-30
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This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-26
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This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper. It looks at his publications in the Morning Post, which first published one of his most famous poems, Dejection. An Ode. It reveals how he found a socially...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-24
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This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-22
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This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-21
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This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology—challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-11
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No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-09
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This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-08
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Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-01
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Ein Zeichen sind wir, deutungslos. Schmerzlos sind wir und haben fast / Die Sprache in der Fremde verloren. So beginnt Friedrich Hölderlins Hymne, die dem Gedächtnis gilt, der Göttin der Erinnerung, Mnemosyne. Dieses Buch will den Dichter der Dichter erinnern und das,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-01
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