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Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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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
Parution :
2022-06-02
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The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture In the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-31
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Dieses Werk stellt die Ergebnisse von Professor Zhang Jiangs langjähriger Forschung und seiner kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der zeitgenössischen westlichen Literaturtheorie erstmals einem deutschsprachigem Lesepublikum vor.
Ausgehend von der Beziehung zwischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-27
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Die Dokumentation eines Forschungsprojektes zielt auf die Rekonstruktion der Diskurse über den Islam in Lesebüchern des Deutschen Kaiserreiches. Sie erschließt mittels Digital Humanities und germanistisch-textanalytischer Verfahren ein digitalisiertes Textkorpus und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-27
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The first history of drama at the universities in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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The first history of drama at the universities in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This volume documents the triple-series Austrian-American Podium Dialog held at Lafayette College in 2013, 2015, and 2018 to which twelve Austrian authors were invited and paired with scholars from American universities and colleges. After the introductory essays that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-25
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This volume offers original essays exploring what ‘fictive narrative philosophy’ might mean in the research and teaching of philosophy. The first part of the book presents theoretical essays that examine Boylan’s recent books: Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-25
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Unter den zahlreichen Arbeitsmigranten, die in den 1960ern und 1970ern nach Deutschland zugewandert sind, waren auch Kroaten. Mehrere Hunderttausend Menschen kroatischer Herkunft sind in Deutschland geblieben und leben dort noch heute. Die Studie umfasst rund vierzig...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-25
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-23
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