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Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism uses feminist ideology and deconstructive criticism to reconstruct the cultural context embedded in Romantic canonical texts. To achieve this end, the book undertakes a close textual study of these texts and places them in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2009-11-25
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From this study of Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ana Castillo arises a new model for analyzing American literature that highlights commonalities - one in which colloquial and lyrical style and content speak out against oppression.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-11-23
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From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green s cultural study reveals the role of "Mountain Whites" in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia s essential role in shaping America s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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In this stunning reinterpretation of Shakespeare s works, Jonathan Hart explores key topics such as love, lust, time, culture, and history to unlock the Bard s brilliant fictional worlds. From an in-depth look at the private and public myths of love in the narrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-19
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Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-19
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Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-19
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This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-19
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Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor Offers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humor Reveals how standard theories...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-19
Collection :
New Directions in Aesthetics
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Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe s earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-18
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A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-12
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Milton and the Ineffable offers a comprehensive reassessment of Milton's poetic oeuvre in light of the literary and conceptual problem posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation. The struggle with the ineffability of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-12
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This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-12
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This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-12
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The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves.
Narcissus so himself himself forsook,
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.
In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self-absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-12
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This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-12
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Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies ofJulian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-09
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Büchner wieder lesen, heißt die eigene Lage schärfer sehn. So umschreibt Christa Wolf die ungebrochene Aktualität Georg Büchners, dessen vielschichtiges uvre bis heute immer wieder zum Nachdenken auffordert. Neben Beiträgen zur Rezeption und Wirkung bietet das Handbuch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2009-11-09
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