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This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-23
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The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Here, esteemed contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy and religion on African American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-23
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This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-23
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-05-19
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AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-17
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Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-17
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In December 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, which led to the creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland the following year. The consequences of that attempt to reconcile the conflicting demands of republicans and unionists alike have dictated...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-17
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This book explores bilingualism and translation in contemporary women’s writing. The author argues that the ‘in-between’ or interstitial linguistic areas of bilingualism, translation and regionalism provide a language and imagery suitable for the expression of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-17
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"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-05-13
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Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within. Who, for instance, is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is the Emperor of Ice-Cream? Or indeed, who is 'you' in a poem? In this perceptive...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-05-12
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In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-05-12
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This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-09
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Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-09
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Elisabeth Castonier, die 1894 in Dresden geborene Tochter des Malers Felix Borchardt, in Dresden, Paris und Berlin aufgewachsen, begann 1917 als Journalistin zu arbeiten. Ende der Zwanzigerjahre hatte sie mit Feuilletons und Zeitungsromanen in Berlin ihren Platz...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-04
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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-04
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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After the Fall A common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.”After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
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The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
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'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third son of four brothers is himself the father of three sons in a family also dispersed, and our author 'looking for the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-04-30
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The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age.The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-04-30
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