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Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-02-13
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Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
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A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLDA Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times and places? British writers in the eighteenth century believed that it was both, and the tension...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-09
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This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of postcolonial and migrant literatures. In particular, the texts focus on the topic of food and its importance in these literatures and the communities they stem from. The aim is to investigate the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Der Piropo wird generell als Kompliment definiert, das ein Mann in spanischsprachigen Kulturen einer unbekannten Frau gegenüber in aller Öffentlichkeit äußert. Dieses «Kompliment» kann für die Angesprochene sowohl positiv als auch negativ ausfallen. Dabei stellt sich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-02
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What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-02
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What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-02
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I saggi contenuti nel volume individuano nettamente, nel panorama della letteratura comica novecentesca, una linea di geografia letteraria emiliano-romagnola o più genericamente padana. L’attenzione si focalizza in primo luogo sul gruppo di autori riunitisi negli anni...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-02
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This book contains the extant tradition of Benvenutus Grassus’ Treatise on the eye and six philological related studies. The tradition in Latin (Metz, Bibliothèques- Médiatèques, MS 176) is displayed with the four known versions in Middle English (Glasgow, Glasgow...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-02
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H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-02
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This book offers an important account of the relationship between science and culture in the eighteenth century. It examines the 'vitalist' turn in physiology and natural philosophy, and its presence and effect in the burgeoning of philosophical and scientific inquiry...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-31
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Nachdem das dichterische Werk Erich Arendts (1903-1984) lange als «Geheimtipp» (Fritz J. Raddatz) galt, findet in den letzten Jahren auf Grund neuer Editionen seiner Werke und Forschungsarbeiten eine literaturgeschichtliche Anerkennung des Dichters statt, den Walter...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-01-31
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Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, was one of the most prolific of post-war poets and, as this Collected Poems reveals, one of the finest. A friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the early 1950s, Redgrove was regarded by many as their equal, and his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-01-31
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This book makes an intensive study of James Phelan’s rhetorical theory of narrative. Apart from illustrating six basic principles in doing rhetorical theory of narrative, the author examines six major issues which are central to Phelan’s rhetorical poetics, namely,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-01-31
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This book explores Sara Coleridge's critical intelligence and theoretical reach. It shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely brilliant criticism of classical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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