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The four prose texts discussed in Literary Rooms position themselves in a literary tradition which highlights the manifold purposes the private room may serve: it is a mirror of the inhabitant, a context in which to position the self, a place of and motor for identity...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-26
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The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-25
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The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-25
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Dieser Sammelband widmet sich neuen Lesarten der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Dabei werden zum einen Werke der Weltliteratur behandelt, die als klassisch zu bezeichnen sind und unter neuen Fragestellungen betrachtet werden. Andere Aufsätze sollen wiederum als Baustein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-24
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This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell’s life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same time, considerable space is afforded...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Literary Lives
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Die Geschichte der Moderne wurde oft als eine Geschichte der modernen Arbeitswelt – im Sinne der Ausdifferenzierung, Ökonomisierung, Professionalisierung und Beschleunigung – erzählt. Sie ist aber auch eine Geschichte neuer Formen der ‚Muße‘ und des ‚Müßiggangs‘, die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294. How could one work have generated such different physical forms? Through examining the work's transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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'A joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography... endlessly fascinating' Catherine Taylor, Financial Times'A tour de force of feminist thinking, spanning seven centuries and multiple continents' Jennifer...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This book describes various new computer based approaches which can be exploited for the (digital) reconstruction, recognition, restoration, presentation and classification of digital heritage. They are based on applications of virtual reality, augmented reality and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-17
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Physische Gewalt ist ein häufiges Motiv in der Literatur. Diese Publikation untersucht die wichtigsten Elemente von Gewaltdarstellungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur und ordnet sie im ersten Teil typologisch. Der zweite Teil widmet sich emotionalen Wirkungspotenzialen von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-17
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The horses in All the Pretty Horses are ubiquitous but rarely the center of attention. Their depiction is surprisingly authentic and without anthropomorphization. This book illustrates how an equicentric reading offers new insights into the novel’s spaces, characters,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-15
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The Medieval Classic considers how ancient and medieval commentaries on the Aeneid by Servius, Fulgentius, Bernard Silvestris, and others can give us new insights into four twelfth-century Latin epics -- the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter, the Alexandreis by Walter of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-14
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From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In The Vertical Imagination...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-11
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From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In The Vertical Imagination...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-11
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Texts, Images, Practices offers multidisciplinary readings of various texts of culture, including social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food. The authors draw from a variety of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-11
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This study focuses on presenting the techniques of reworking and incorporating intertextual material into contemporary British fiction. Analysing emblematic intertextual strategies: adaptation, pastiche, transworld identity, and historiographic metafiction, the study...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-11
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Ludwig Wittgenstein erscheint im Werk W. G. Sebalds häufig. Dieses Buch stellt ihn als zentrale Figur in zweien seiner Werke dar. Es stellt eine Analogie zwischen dem literarischen Konzept des Synoptischen Blicks und dem sprachkritischen Werkzeug der Übersichtlichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-11
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The border and border-crossing and its significance for the Chicana in a cultural, social, gendered, and spiritual sense are at the core of this book.The three oeuvres selected—Helena Viramontes’The Moths and Other Stories, Ana Castillo’sThe Mixquiahuala Letters, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-11
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