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With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-03
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Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of a country that has extremely high levels of sexual violence.
Lucy Graham demonstrates how, despite the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-10-01
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Here is the distinctly surreal world of Henry King, who perished through his 'chief defect' of chewing little bits of string; of dishonest Matilda whose dreadful lies led her to death by burning; and of Godolphin Horne who 'held the human race in scorn' and ended as the...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-30
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When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-09-30
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Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. ThePoetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-29
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This collection of critical essays and interviews gives an overview of the various kinds of medial manifestations which Shakespeare’s work has been transferred into over the centuries: into a theatrical performance, a printed text, a painting, an opera, an audio book, a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-28
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In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy, Amherst College Amherst,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-21
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E. T. A. Hoffmann war in der Zeit der Entstehung der meisten seiner literarischen Werke als Richter am Kammergericht in Berlin tätig. Die Arbeit macht sich auf die Spurensuche bezüglich der Zusammenhänge zwischen dichterischem Schaffen und richterlicher Tätigkeit....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-20
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Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-20
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Intertextualität spielt für die Deutung von Apuleius’ Metamorphosen eine zentrale Rolle. In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass Apuleius bei der Schilderung von Liebesbeziehungen den elegischen Diskurs aufgreift, indem er seinen Protagonisten Lucius und die Sklavin Photis...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-20
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