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HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people:...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept. The author...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-02
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This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s.
Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
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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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Shibata Renzaburo and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work ofShibata Renzaburo (?????, 1917–1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-30
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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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Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-27
Collection :
Critical South
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The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-26
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Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-26
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Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste, die den Erinnerungsspuren nachgeht, die Jehovas Zeugen (Bibelforscher) in den Erzähltexten Überlebender des Nationalsozialismus hinterlassen haben. Trotz unterschiedlicher Erinnerungskulturen und -interessen seitens der Autoren...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-25
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Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästhetisch autonom. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-21
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This book conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Franz Kafka’s relation to China. Commencing with an examination of the myriad Chinese cultural influences to which Kafka was exposed, it goes on to explore the ways in which they manifest themselves in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-20
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José Saramago, one of the most critically acclaimed writers worldwide, was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. This honour, the first to be bestowed on a Portuguese-language writer, marked one of the high points in a long and manifold career....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Die Studie analysiert ausgewählte deutschsprachige Satiren, die Figuren des Narren enthalten und den Zeitraum vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert widerspiegeln. Dadurch sollen der Forschung neue Vorschläge gemacht werden, wie die Satire erfasst werden kann.Die Untersuchung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-15
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The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-14
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