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The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and...
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Penguin
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2021-11-18
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The incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment'A dazzling literary detective story' GuardianIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in...
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Penguin
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2021-11-16
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Die elf chronologisch geordneten Beiträge des Sammelbandes gehen von den literarischen und kulturpolitischen Gegebenheiten aus der Zeit des Eisernen Vorhangs aus, um namhafte Vertreter der rumäniendeutschen Literatur der Nachkriegs- und Vorwendejahre 1945–1989 (u.a....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-11-15
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This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-11-12
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L’attribution du prix Nobel de littérature, avec le cortège de revendications et de fiertés qui l’accompagne, conduit, chaque année, à un réagencement de la carte européenne et mondiale des littératures – réagencement qui, presque toujours, révèle des conflits de...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-11-12
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A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.
During the 1920s and 30s, words and pictures in print were the main way in which people...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-11
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A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.
During the 1920s and 30s, words and pictures in print were the main way in which people...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-11
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The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully illustrated by Paul Kidby.The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant...
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Gollancz
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2021-11-11
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Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-11
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Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-11
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The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-11-10
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This volume maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators’ perspective. It analyzes spaces where political crimes have been committed and how these places have undergone successive resemanticization in collective memories. The chapters...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-11-10
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Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first black philosopher to matriculate at a Prussian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-11-09
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Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-05
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Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-05
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Die Habilitationsschrift von Hans Geulen aus dem Jahr 1971 wird hier erstmals vollständig veröffentlicht.Die stark gekürzte Druckversion, die 1975 unter dem Titel Erzählkunst der frühen Neuzeit. Zur Geschichte epischer Darbietungsweisen und Formen im Roman der...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-04
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'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a pleasure to...
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Pelican
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2021-11-04
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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed....
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-04
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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed....
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-04
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible.The...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-04
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