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This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-20
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This collection of eight essays by world-renowned philosophers and literary critics thoroughly examines the philosophical perspectives of Leo Tolstoy's immortal novel War and Peace. By examining the narrative structure, as well as the struggles and destinies of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-21
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The volume presents Handke's works from Hornissen (1966) to Das zweite Schwert (2020) in individual analyses and at the same time opens up overarching orientations of Handke's writing.The autoreflexive traces that characterise the author's experimental early work are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-13
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu analysieren, was genau sich in diesen Texten im...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-13
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This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-12
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Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-22
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This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing—two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-13
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Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-07
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Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-01
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This volume explores ‘the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge’ (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and legacy. Major entries cover...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-25
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This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress.This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period’s receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and twenty-first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-17
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This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saiko (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and Natsume Soseki (1867–1916) – experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin)...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-17
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The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-15
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This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Als Autor von weltliterarischem Rang hat Arthur Schnitzler die Epoche der Klassischen Moderne literarisch äußerst produktiv und mit hochgradiger Sensibilität für ihre Probleme und Widersprüche begleitet. Sein Werk weist eine enorme motivische Bandbreite auf und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-11-09
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This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen’s narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood, exploring how Austen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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Der Band untersucht ästhetische und diskursive Formen, die in der Moderne an die Kritik des Bürgerlichen geknüpft sind.Der Fokus richtet sich auf Beispiele aus Frankreich, Italien und Spanien sowie aus Lateinamerika. Diese kulturvergleichende Perspektive auf Dimensionen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-28
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