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This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular “theory of fiction,” especially in relation to the novel. Unlike Forster’s approach to “Aspects of the Novel,” which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-20
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This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-19
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The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another', wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives, hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-07
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The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another', wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives, hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-07
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This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-07
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Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview of a century-old critical tradition focused on Joyce and music, as well...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-17
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The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-17
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100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
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During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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Nur wenige deutsche Dichter erfahren eine ähnlich starke Aufmerksamkeit bis in die jüngste Gegenwart wie Friedrich Hölderlin. Das Handbuch, seit vielen Jahren das Standardwerk zur Hölderlin-Forschung, informiert in der Neuauflage detailliert über den aktuellen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-19
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Es gibt eine Vorgeschichte des Ehebruchromans, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem gesamteuropäischen literarischen Paradigma wurde. Im Zuge der Französischen Revolution entsteht eine säkulare Ehegesetzgebung, die einen metaphorischen Überschuss...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-02
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Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-02
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This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period. The first selection to place Clough's poetry alongside his...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-29
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