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Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-21
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Cicero's letters have figured prominently in some of western modernity's most cherished illusions about the immediacy of its encounter with Classical antiquity. Celebrated since their discovery in the Renaissance for their intimate mode of self-expression, they have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-14
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What do we mean by ‘dialogue’?What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the author’s production?
This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-13
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A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influencesA History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-05-13
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature
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This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together contributions on the debates of the category 'Nature Writing’ by numerous renowned international scholars. It discusses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-11
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This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses. The title originated in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) 2022 conference and marks the 40th onsite event by showcasing some of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-09
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This book examines travel narratives as a medium used by the American public to imagine and negotiate new ways to live in, move through, and share national space. Setting an array of archival material, including congressional deliberations, into analytical conversation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-09
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Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-08
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In this volume, scholars analyze contemporary Black British and American women’s fiction that tackles issues of violence and its representations. The book gives readers a wide perspective about recent research on the history of Black women who have been subjected to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-08
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This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-07
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction, written by a large, international team of scholars.The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-07
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This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children – to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress. It considers how practitioners of literature and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-06
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'McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions'I've never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn't totally exciting' Dennis CooperOne of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books for 2024In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2024-05-02
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Self-seeding windis a wind of ever-replenishing breath.-from 'The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering'The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2024-05-02
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This monograph offers new insights into the fundamentals of literary theory. It synthesizes and evaluates research from recent decades, critically examining this work from a transnational perspective and with a particular focus on publications in English, French and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-02
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The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical studies, mostly...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-01
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Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining moment in U.S. literary history. Author Sarah Gleeson-White discovers what happened to literary culture-both popular and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-30
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This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferrière, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga. It sees the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-29
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This book offers new perspectives on text/image hybridity in the context of life writing. Each chapter explores the very topical issue of how writers and artists combine two media in order to enhance the autobiographical narrative and experience of the reader. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-28
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Theorien des Populären setzen bisher oftmals bei sozialen Verhältnissen an (z.B. populäre Kultur als Kultur der machtlosen ‚niederen‘ Schichten) oder bestimmen das Populäre über die Merkmale der so bezeichneten Artefakte (etwa als Gegenteil der autonomen, komplexen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-04-26
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