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Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-21
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Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) gehört zu den prägenden Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk umspannt ästhetisch die Epochen vom Fin de Siècle über den Expressionismus bis zur Klassischen Moderne, politisch Kaiserreich, Weimarer Republik und antifaschistisches Exil. Gerade...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-20
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Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-20
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Paul Celans Status in Russland hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stark verändert: Von einem Autor, der noch in den 1990er-Jahren bloß in literarischen Kreisen bekannt war, ist er zu einer Figur des breiten künstlerischen Kanons geworden. Dabei ist die russische...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-19
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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-17
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This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-14
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It is commonly held among scholars that there was no mass literature in the Soviet Union during the Stalin years. What should we do, then, with Lev Ovalov’s Major Pronin or with the stories of Lev Sheinin, which began to appear in the mid-1930s? And what about Nikolai...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-07-14
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This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by investigating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-11
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Dinge tauchen in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit in ganz unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen auf – sie werden getauscht, verschenkt oder geraubt. Dabei haben sie – jenseits ihres ‚Eigensinns‘ – je andere Funktion und Bedeutung: als handlungstragendes Element, als Mittel...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-06
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LITERATURE A WORLD HISTORY An exploration of the history of the world’s literatures and the many varieties of literary expression Literature: A World Historyencompasses all the world’s major literary traditions, emphasizing the interrelationship of local and national...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-07-04
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Der Autor reagiert mit dem Buch auf das anhaltende Interesse an der Reiseliteratur um 1800 – einer Zeit, in der Mobilität für die Menschen immer wichtiger wurde. Es gab eine zunehmende Zahl von Reisenden aller Couleur, und nicht wenige verspürten das Bedürfnis, ihre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-04
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The volume features the work of leading scholars from the US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Russia and presents an important contribution to current debates on world literature.The contributions discuss various facets of the historically changing role and status of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-02
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This book analyzes Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swift’s writings, this has usually meant a study of how Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and state, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-01
Collection :
Recovering Political Philosophy
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Curated from the first four volumes of Peter Lang's Playing Shakespeare's Characters series, this omnibus edition selects the most practical essays for actors and directors wanting to play and produce Shakespeare's plays. The dozen contributors in this volume explore...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-07-01
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«Valentina Romanzi’s study is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the complex and rich debate on the question of genres and subgenres, while at the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-07-01
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An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy.
One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985).
This is a long-awaited first selected edition of the letters of Basil Bunting, one of the major modernist poets of the twentieth century. It includes a large portion of Bunting's correspondence (around...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy.
One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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