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With an essay by Mark Spilka.'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?'Henry Fielding's riotous tale of innocents in a corrupt world was one of the earliest English novels,...
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Penguin
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2012-06-28
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The Penguin English Library
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This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between 'high' and popular art forms.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-06-28
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Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2012-06-25
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This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the ‘Other’ still possible in a world in which we all have become rootless, disconnected and strangers, alienated from the outside world and from ourselves? Does the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-22
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What do we do when we are about to utter speech? On which linguistic units do we rely? How do these units evolve from childhood to adulthood, or across time for a given language? How do we assemble these units under the influences of syntactic, phonological and prosodic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-21
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Fra i migliori esempi di prosa modernista spagnola, le Sonatas di Ramón del Valle-Inclán costituiscono le «memorias amables» di Xavier de Bradomín, un dongiovanni «feo, católico y sentimental». La monografia vuole individuare quali di queste caratteristiche avvicinano...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-20
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Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-06-19
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The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension.The prolegomena to a «unified field theory of futurology» presented here attempt to reconcile these epistemological models by meticulously investigating...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-19
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Contents: Lew Zybatow: Geleitwort des Reihenherausgebers – Alexandra Vranceanu/Angelo Pagliardini: Introduzione – Francis Claudon : Humanitas et migration : Dialogue des Anciens et des Modernes – Monica Spiridon : Errances réelles, errances rêvées, errances mythiques –...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-15
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Theoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as the expression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices of power. In Changing Subjects, Srikanth Reddy seeks to redress our critical bias toward a fatalistic poetics...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-13
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It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-13
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This detailed study explores the significance of the ‘Library of Ireland’, a book series originated in the 1840s by the Young Irelanders Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy. Focusing on the literary anthologies and literary histories published in this series, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge tragen aus je unterschiedlicher Perspektive dazu bei, den Aspekt evaluierender Sprachbetrachtung in die wissenschaftliche Analyse sprachlicher Wirklichkeit zu integrieren. Das Konzept «Gute Sprache, schlechte Sprache» ist ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-12
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This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-08
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Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-08
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This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-08
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Throughout the second half of the 20th century various societies were shaped by conflicting trends of globalization and nationalist resurgence, powerful surges of collective identities as well as fragmentation into individualistic subjects. Against this background of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-08
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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous'Independent'Richly intelligent'Financial TimesIn these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2012-06-07
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According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-07
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In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless science of Jules Verne to the power of H. G. Wells's terrifying...
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Penguin
Parution :
2012-06-07
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