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Entgegen einer pauschalen Kritik an den Epochenbegriffen diskutieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes historische und systematische Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Epochisierungen. Unterschiedliche sozio-kulturelle Systeme werfen unterschiedliche Fragen auf. Als...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie, and SHAN Sa. They were all born in China, moved to France in their adulthood to pursue their literary and artistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese scholars and policymakers are debating heatedly over China’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual moral flaws. However, the sense of morality that underlies this book is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK.This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-02
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This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation focuses on the process of translation and its implications. The volume explores the translation of works of science fiction (SF) from one language to another and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Studies in Global Science Fiction
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This book discusses John Galsworthy’s compassion for people and animals, in his fiction, non-fiction and drama. Initial chapters explore compassion in The Forsyte Saga and The Modern Comedy, and his parents’ influence. Other chapters examine his works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia “knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century. After arguing that the emergence of the figure of the tramp...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-31
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