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Cyberfiction: After the Future explores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and culture - our world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneous capital flows, and immanent catastrophe. Economics fuses with technology to create a new kind of speculative fiction:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-29
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This unique collection of essays examines the complex significations of 'Asia' in the literary and cultural production of Early Modern England. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds to bring a range of perspectives to this topic.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-29
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In the aftermath of the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, this book offers a re-reading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel by exploring the relation of the writer to the reader.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-29
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Polybius' Histories is one of classical antiquity's great political narratives. Written in 40 books (of which only the first five are preserved in full), it originally set out to explain the dramatic rise of Rome in the half century from the war against Hannibal to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-24
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This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-17
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A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-03-16
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources.The contributors examine how money and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-15
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Written in hypertext and read from a computer, hypertext novels exist as a collection of textual fragments, which must be pieced together by the reader. The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction offers a new critical theory tailored specifically for this burgeoning...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-10
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Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham,The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-10
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Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham,The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-10
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Romance, Family, and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature explores how Japanese writers in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan used narratives of romantic and familial love in order to traverse the dangerous currents of empire. Focusing on the period between 1937 and 1945,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-01
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From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution. Through a discussion of ancient musical forms (classical, biblical, and early-modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-01
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This book examines the philosophy of history and the subject of the nation in the literature of Joseph Conrad. It explores the importance of nineteenth-century Polish Romantic philosophy in Conrad's literary development, arguing that the Polish response to Hegelian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-25
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Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial IndiaConstructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the criminal tribe in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Tracing and analyzing historical debates...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-19
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Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-18
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Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-18
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A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries. Written by leading critics in the field, and edited by two major scholars, it explores a wide range of writers, from Edgar Allen Poe and Edith...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-12
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-12
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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MEDIEVAL POETRY In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15th century. Beginning in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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