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Weniger erhaben als vielmehr isoliert und abgebrannt thront er über den Dingen: Spätestens seit Carls Spitzwegs bekanntem Gemälde von 1839 gilt der ‚arme Poet‘ als Klischee. Doch wie nehmen die Autorinnen und Autoren selbst ihre finanzielle und soziale Randständigkeit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-06-30
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-12
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God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-08
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This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-19
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We live in a psychological age. Contemporary culture is saturated with psychological concepts and ideas, from anxiety to narcissism to trauma. While it might seem that concern over psychological conditions and challenges is intrinsically oriented toward moral questions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-21
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In diesem Buch beschreibt Helmut Grugger, wie poetische Texte hochgradig reflektierte Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Komplex des Psychotraumas erzeugen, und zeigt so, dass gerade Literatur hoher Qualität für die unterschiedlichen Diskurse zum Thema Trauma von höchstem...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-03-02
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To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-28
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Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-09
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This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-29
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In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-08
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In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-08
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This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged ‘first’ cities.This volume problematizes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-10
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This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-18
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This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida’s work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought. Ergin introduces the notion of "ecological text" to emphasize textuality as a form of entanglement that proves useful in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-11
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This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-09-05
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Worin besteht die Komplexität poetischer Produktionen? Der Band versammelt Positionen aus den Philologien, der Kunstgeschichte, Rechtswissenschaft, Stadtplanung und Informatik. Er widmet sich einer in den Kulturwissenschaften häufig verwendeten, aber schwach...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-07-13
Collection :
Germanistische Symposien
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This book reflects the chronological changes in Chinese cultural values, social relations, economy and politics by critically analyzing the Chinese advertising discourse. The work is based on research into the ideological values portrayed in Chinese household appliance...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-04
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