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Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-03
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A BRONTË ENCYCLOPEDIA “This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Brontë scholar. It contains much to enlighten and surprise even those who think they know the Brontës well.” Heather...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-29
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Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text of Lucina’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-21
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As an age-old metaphor for the sexual chase, the hunt provides a uniquely conflicted site for the representation of masculinity. On the one hand, hunting had from ancient times served to define a particular and culturally approved mode of masculinity as heroic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis exploring the relation between...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-19
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Die vierzehnte Folge des Jahrbuchs trägt ein weiteres Mal Gedenkjahren Rechnung, die für die Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung von Bedeutung sind: Der im April 2008 begangene 100. Todestag Wilhelm Buschs wird mit einem Beitrag von Hans Ries, dem Autor der kritischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-03-15
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Irish saga literature represents the largest collection of vernacular narrative in existence from the early Middle Ages, using the tools of Christian literacy to retell myths and legends about the pagan past. This unique corpus remains marginal to standard histories of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-02-28
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Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-26
Collection :
Blackwell History of Literature
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The Rhetoric of Redemption: Chesterton, Ethical Criticism, and the Common Man examines the literary criticism written by G. K. Chesterton between 1902 and 1913 from a rhetorical standpoint to ascertain whether Chesterton did in fact create the «criticism for the common...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-02-19
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One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-02-19
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Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-02-15
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No one graduating from school can any longer have the illusion to have completed her or his learning career, nor to live in a monocultural society. Quite on the contrary, learning will be the major business of the professional future of anyone who now leaves school....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-02-08
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A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-30
Collection :
Critical Theory Handbooks
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Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the period when Wilde was judged by many to be 'at his best', and Blacker went on to become a trustee of Wilde's marriage...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-24
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No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A belief in art as a law unto itself is central to the work of many writers from the late nineteenth century to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-10
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This volume explores the expansion of audiovisual translation studies and practices within European institutions, universities and businesses. The wide variety of contributions from researchers and practitioners from different countries and backgrounds reflects the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-08
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Die Arbeit untersucht anhand der mittelenglischen Romanzen die Etablierung des Englischen als Literatursprache im Spätmittelalter. Vor dem Hintergrund kontinentaler und insularer französischer Vorlagen prägt sich eine volkssprachliche Literaturgattung aus, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-03
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The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-27
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The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-27
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