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This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’ life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-20
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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-17
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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-17
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This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field.
Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-17
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Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-17
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Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-17
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The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-16
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Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit,' 'poetry,'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-12
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the second volume of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, is Dickens's third novel, originally published in monthly parts between March 1838 and September 1839. Brilliantly comic, the novel quickly developed a strong...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-10
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This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early 2000s in order to explore the cultural hybridization and transgressive identity transformations at play in these works. It shows how the ornamental style and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-05
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Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-04
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This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-03
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This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing how Ishiguro remains greatly indebted to Japanese culture and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-03
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This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-02
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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-02
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The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-01
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In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts avanciert die Erinnerung zu einem zentralen Gegenstand der deutschsprachigen Lyrik. Das bislang in der Forschung weitgehend marginalisierte Genre der Erinnerungslyrik wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit erstmals systematisch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-31
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Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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