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This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature.This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-05-15
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This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-05-14
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This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas’...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-08
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Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-05-07
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Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-05-07
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An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-05-04
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In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-04
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Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Langland's Piers Plowman. Previous critical accounts ofConscience either focus on discussions of the faculty conscience in scholastic...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-03
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This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javier Marías (1951-), who worked as a literary translator for a significant portion of his early career. Since then, he has maintained that...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-03
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In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance, and what the material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-05-03
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Between Christmas and new year of 1817 the eccentric painter, B.R. Haydon, gave a famous dinner party. His guests included three of the greatest literary stars of the age: the poets John Keats and William Wordsworth and the essayist and wit Charles Lamb. They recited...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-05-03
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The short story as an autonomous genre has called the attention of both writers and literary critics with theoretical concerns over the last two centuries. It is a form of writing that has met the favour of readers and publishers alike: because of its very brevity, it...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-03
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Ian McEwan’s novels are characterised by innovative forms of plot-oriented storytelling that combine a pronounced interest in contemporary (British) culture and (recent) history with a concern for social and ethical questions. Novels like The Child in Time, Black Dogs,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-02
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In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-04-30
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Postmodernism in Estonian Literary Culture explores the influence of postmodernism on Estonian culture, more precisely its literature. The author takes a look at how postmodernism arrived in the Estonian literary culture and how it took root there, both on a theoretical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-30
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This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric that, prior to 1934, was essential to the legitimization of proto-fascist political and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-26
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Invention and innovation are what distinguish the human race from all of the other species on Earth. Throughout history the imagination and pioneering spirit of human kind has compelled us to question why we do things in a certain way and, more importantly, how we can...
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Quercus
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2012-04-26
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Diese Studie fokussiert den Erstdruck von Sebastian Brants Narrenschiff (1494) als kooperativ produziertes Buch. Im Rahmen einer druckanalytischen Untersuchung eines Exemplars des Erstdrucks werden alle relevanten materiell-medialen Objekteigenschaften erfasst. Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-25
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