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What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-08-20
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What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-20
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The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise.The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-20
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Whereas modernist writers lauded the consecrated realm of subjective interiority, mid-century writers were engrossed by the materialization of the collective mind. An obsession with group thinking was fuelled by the establishment of academic sociology and the ubiquitous...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-08-19
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Whereas modernist writers lauded the consecrated realm of subjective interiority, mid-century writers were engrossed by the materialization of the collective mind. An obsession with group thinking was fuelled by the establishment of academic sociology and the ubiquitous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Useful Objects examines the history of American museums during the nineteenth century through the eyes of visitors, writers, and collectors. Museums of this period included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to antiquarian artifacts and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-18
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Dungan Folktales and Legends is a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after failure of theDungan Revolt (1862–1877)...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-17
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This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-17
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Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-12
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A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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This book is a reflection on the Jewish presence in two European capitals, Warsaw and Berlin, in the first half of the 20th century. It was inspired by the works of Polish-Jewish, Yiddish and German-Jewish authors, as well as by the connections between urban spaces and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-12
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Die politische Sozialisation von Kindern beginnt bereits im Vorschulalter.Die Autorin untersucht, wie dieser Sozialisationsprozess im Kindergarten der DDR gestaltet werden sollte und welche Rolle dabei das kulturelle Konzept «Heimat» bzw. «sozialistische Heimat»...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-12
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With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-10
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This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-06
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The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson offers a comprehensive overview of the Epigrams of Martial and the Siluae of Statius.The praise of power found in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-05
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