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Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-12-21
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Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature. Breaking free...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Bis heute ist der Begriff Theater des Absurden, den Martin Esslin 1961 in seinem gleichnamigen Standardwerk prägte, umstritten. Als Ergänzung wird in dieser Arbeit die Bezeichnung Drama des Skandals und der Angst vorgeschlagen. Trotz unterschiedlicher kultureller...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-12-21
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Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-20
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This book contextualizes 21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework of inter-American narratives. Examining a range of sources, Pitt finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-20
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The Riddles of Harry Potter draws readers into the deeper meanings of these phenomenally successful books, arguing that they launch and pursue interpretive quests in an ongoing effort to understand patterns and their attendant meanings, implications, and consequences.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-20
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Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
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Sarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events. In this remarkable new collection, her poems travel greater distances than ever before. The title poem...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-14
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To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an aesthetic that had much in common with the old Japanese notion, attributed...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-14
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Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the darkness, where we may just as easily lose ourselves as find what we are...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-14
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In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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How was modernism shaped, from its beginning, by intellectual property law? What role did the law's imperial and transatlantic asymmetries play in modernism's dissemination?How did various modernists exploit, reform, anoint, and evade copyright? And how is the study of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-09
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Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languages, including some key-languages in politeness research, such as English, and Japanese, as well as some...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling'...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-07
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-07
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