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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,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-25
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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,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-08-25
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-24
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In der westlichen Kultur waren Gesellschaft, Kultur und Geschichte stets dem Menschen vorbehalten. Heute erschüttern die Entdeckungen der Bio- und Nanotechnologien das anthropozentrische Weltbild. Sie enthüllen nicht nur die hochentwickelten Lebensformen anderer Arten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-24
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„Inklings" nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-23
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Il secolo scorso vede l’inequivocabile sopravvivenza del fantastico come genere letterario, la cui continuità con i grandi modelli ottocenteschi va ricercata nel suo dare rappresentazione allo scarto prodotto dall’improvviso collidere di dimensioni narrative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-23
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In occasione del 50° anniversario della scomparsa di Dino Buzzati (Belluno 1906 - Milano 1972) l’Associazione Internazionale Dino Buzzati si fa promotrice di una serie di iniziative scientifiche in programma tra il 2021 e il 2022. Nei giorni 26-27 maggio 2021...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-22
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David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-22
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This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-21
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This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-20
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This book develops interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to analyzing the cross-cultural travels of traditional Chinese fiction. It ties this genre to issues such as translation, world literature, digital humanities, book culture, and images of China. Each...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-16
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Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-08-16
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-15
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What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-15
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A personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about.
Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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A personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about.
Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and temporality have been dominating discourses. But in recent criticism the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and temporality have been dominating discourses. But in recent criticism the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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