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Alan Lomax (1915-2002) is arguably the most popular and influential American folk song collector of the 20th century. Pursuing a mission of both preserving and popularizing folk music, Lomax moved between political activism, the scholarly world, and the world of popular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-12
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The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes potential agendas...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-04-11
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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRYA Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-04-11
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller and he was joined at dinner by a shifting constellation of great...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2022-04-07
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Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the...
Editeur :
Constable
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2022-04-07
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'In McCrae's hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through' Kate Kellaway, Guardian 'Confirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I take I know I should feel...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2022-04-07
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Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser’s study aims to strengthen resilience...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-07
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Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-07
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This book presents how Nation and Narrative are bound together through the figure of the "N/native" as it appears in the non-fictional writings of Cornelia Sorabji, Grazia Deledda, Zitkála-%Sá, Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo, and Gwendolyn Bennett. It addresses two...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-07
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George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-07
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This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-06
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Als Orte der literarischen Moderne gelten meist nur die Großstädte Paris, London, Berlin oder Wien. Das vorliegende Buch zeigt, dass auch abseits der Metropolen avancierte und sozial engagierte Literatur möglich war. Dazu wird die Mährische Moderne eingehender...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-05
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The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-04
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Cicero's dialogues De oratore (On the Orator) and De re publica (On the Commonwealth), composed between 55 and 51 BCE, examine two topics central to Roman public life: the role of the orator in society and the importance of honorable statesmanship for the preservation...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-01
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This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-01
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Durch sein Sterbenswörtchen „Aus“ bringt Bebuquin ein Buch zur Welt, das seinen Namen trägt: „Bebuquin oder Die Dilettanten des Wunders“. Wie der Titel schon konzediert: um ein regelrechtes „Wunder“ handelt es sich nicht, aber der Verfasser, Carl Einstein (1885–1940),...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-03-31
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-31
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Ohne Pflanzen können Menschen nicht leben. Trotz dieser elementaren Bedeutung der Pflanzen hat die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft ihnen bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Dies ändert sich zurzeit: Seit einigen Jahren formiert sich das neue Forschungsfeld der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-03-31
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Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction toRichmal Crompton’s less well-known...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-30
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In a catalogue note for the 1965 exhibition 'Between Poetry and Painting' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the poet Edwin Morgan probed the relationship between abstraction and literature: 'Abstract painting can often satisfy, but "abstract poetry" can only exist...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-29
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