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Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the discussion of the woman dandy. Modernist Women Dandies revisits dandyism to provide an interpretative framework for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-29
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This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, in light of the relevance theory account of communication first developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in the 1980s. The first half of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-27
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Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem?Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be considered a prose poem, a form influenced by the brilliant invention of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-26
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This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-26
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Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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In a novel reading of Shakespeare’s plays, this book addresses an observation first made many decades ago, that Shakespeare appears to neglect the intellectual upheavals that astronomy brought about in his lifetime. The author examines temporal, situational, and verbal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-11-24
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Poetische Reflexionen über den Suizid beleuchten die Verhältnisse, in denen Menschen verzweifeln. Doch vor welchen Hintergründen tritt die Suizidthematik in Erscheinung? Welche Formen und Funktionen weist sie auf? Handelt es sich um ein psychisches, soziales,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-23
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Die 17 Beiträge dieses Bandes verfolgen eine Standortbestimmung der Philologien, die – ausgehend vom Volksgeist des 19. und der Kulturkunde des 20. Jahrhunderts – sich im 21. Jahrhundert neu positionieren müssen.Die einzelnen Beiträge gehen auf Fragen ein wie: Welche...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-11-20
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Wenigen Dichtern der Moderne gelingt es so wie Mörike, Literatur aus dem sozialen Lebenszusammenhang hervorgehen zu lassen und auf ihn zu beziehen. Dabei steigern und intensivieren sich Kunst und Leben wechselseitig. Mit höchster poetischer Sensibilität macht...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-11-18
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This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-11-18
Collection :
Asia in Transition
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