| |
In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806. The Memoirs were a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-12
ePub
|
This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
PDF, ePub
|
In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
PDF, ePub
|
In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
PDF, ePub
|
Gerichtsprozesse wie der NSU-Prozess haben große mediale Aufmerksamkeit erfahren und sind zum Stoff von zahlreichen Theaterinszenierungen geworden. Solche publikumswirksamen ‚Schau-Prozesse‘ zeigen, wie Gericht und Theater zu Bühnen des Politischen werden. Dabei wird...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-08
PDF, ePub
|
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead...
Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
PDF
|
This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
PDF, ePub
|
Die Untersuchung fokussiert die funktionelle Distribution einzelner Dativstrukturen im Russischen und Tschechischen und die damit einhergehende und durch die Slavistik wenig erforschte Frage nach möglichen kausalen Zusammenhängen innerhalb des Systems dativischer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-08
PDF, ePub
|
Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both ofShakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
PDF, ePub
|
Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-05
ePub
|
This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in contemporary British children’s fiction. The study ties together findings from pragmatics, language acquisition research,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between family structures and narrative structure in the nineteenth-century novel. Comparing Russia and England, it argues that the two nations had fundamentally different conceptions of the family and that these,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
PDF
|
According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-08-31
Collection :
Critical South
PDF, ePub
|
This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
PDF, ePub
|
|
|
El libro investiga el funcionamiento dramático del exilio exterior e interior en una selección de diecisiete obras teatrales de Jorge Díaz. Se establecen vínculos entre el contenido y la estructura de cuatro elementos que constituyen el microcosmos de una obra teatral:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-30
PDF, ePub
|
Wilhelm von Humboldt gehört zu den zentralen Protagonisten der europäischen Kultur, Wissenschaft, Literatur und Politik um 1800. Sein umfangreiches und thematisch weitgespanntes Werk greift nahezu alle entscheidenden Themen der Epoche auf. Als Reformator des Preußischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-08-29
PDF
|
Drawing on a selection of carefully curated autobiographical and fictional portrayals of the dementia experience, this book gives voice to some of the most pressing ethical issues that commonly arise in the context of a dementing disorder, and calls attention to various...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-08-29
PDF, ePub
|