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Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-28
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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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AFTER GLOBALIZATION “Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs. Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dare to go beyond the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringingEnglish literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. The definitive biography goes beyond a study of the great poet to create a vibrant and masterful commentary onAuden's work, ideas and life...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-02-22
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Lucid, complex, sensual and richly textured, the poems in The Invisible Mender are notable for the breadth of their subject matter and the precision of their detail. We travel on journeys through landscapes dense with historical and political meanings, from the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-02-22
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How does American culture deal with its memories of the Vietnam War and what role does literature play in this process? Remembering Viet Nam is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which authors of Vietnam War literature represent American cultural memory in their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Taking its cue from Eugene O’Neill’s questioning of «faithful realism», voiced by Edmund Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night, this book examines the distant legacy of the Irish American playwright in contemporary multiethnic drama in the U.S. It explores the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Si completa l’edizione delle lettere scambiate tra Muratori (1672-1750) e i suoi numerosi corrispondenti di area tedesca. I carteggi coi nomi più noti (come Imhof, i Mencke, i Fabricius) erano stati curati dagli stessi autori in due pubblicazioni di questa collana (L....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Die sechzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs wird eingeleitet mit einem Berichtsteil, der neben Informationen über Ausstellungsaktivitäten im Bereich der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur die Eröffnungsansprachen von Claire Bradford und Klaus Doderer zum 19. Kongress der International...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-02-21
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The book offers a general and up-to-date overview of the wider discipline of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), including practices such as accessibility to the media.The innovative and exciting articles by well-known authors offer a comprehensive selection of topics for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-02-17
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The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-15
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'Your brother looked healthy, happy, natural. But everything else about him is extremely odd. Not faintly odd. Extremely odd. Except in appearance. He's the opposite of you.' Quentin CrispAt the age of twenty-two, the youngest of five brothers, Jonathan Barrow, was...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-02-10
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In this original study, Geoffrey Sanborn presents a fresh interpretation of the villanous Magua in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and of the dignified harpooner Queequeg in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). Through careful historical research,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-09
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If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen?...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-02-08
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Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper insight into ourselves and others. Prescriptive cultural stereotypes, however, put obstacles on our path to progress as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-03
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This book examines the role and the meaning of collecting in the fiction of Henry James. Emerging as a refined consumerist practice at the end of the nineteenth century, collecting not only set new rules for appreciating art, but also helped to shape the aesthetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-03
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