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How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature?How might we recalibrate the coordinates of critical vision and open up new areas of investigation? To answer such questions, this volume brings together 23 original essays written by leading...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-30
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This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-01-27
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The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. Explains the most important elements of poetry in clear language and an easily accessible manner Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-27
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Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-25
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The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study of Romanticism. Focuses on British Romanticism while also...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-25
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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The Wild West was popular with American audiences long before the appearance of the Hollywood western. From 1829 to 1881, playgoers throughout the nation applauded frontier dramas that celebrated conventional American values like rugged individualism and the ideology of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-19
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The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy.The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-18
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Sprachökonomie wird viel Potenzial zugeschrieben: Sprachwandel herbeizuführen, für neue computerspezifische Varietäten verantwortlich zu sein und sogar den Gebrauch von Anglizismen zu fördern. In diesem Band werden nach einem theoretischen Blick aufSprachökonomie in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-01-13
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ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: “An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy.The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) has survived and flourished as a drama for over five centuries. The work has also enjoyed immense popularity in music. Its lyrical verse, its constant use of musical terminology, and its references to and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-01-13
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This volume is a representative selection of current methods of metrical-rhythmical analysis. Leading experts in the field present the latest state of the art in metrical theory, including Generative Metrics, the Russian quantitative-statistical approach, Optimality...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-01-13
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-01-12
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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-11
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Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2012-01-10
Collection :
1001
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The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists,...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-01-06
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Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-06
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Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-06
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This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-06
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-06
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