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The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-05
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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
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2020-11-04
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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
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2020-11-04
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We live in an era of global anxiety – about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward extinction. So it’s no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-11-04
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This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well. Building on symposia that were held in London...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-03
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National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To show the contribution translations made to shaping an Italian national culture, it draws...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-03
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Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare's extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-30
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Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare's extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-30
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This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-30
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This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-30
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Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an ideaWordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-29
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Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an ideaWordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-29
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Der Band widmet sich der Kriegsberichterstattung im Spannungsfeld von Literatur und Journalismus. Im Zentrum stehen unterschiedliche Kriegs- und Konfliktherde der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie des 21. Jahrhunderts, die sich in ein (post-)koloniales...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-10-28
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Zukunftsromane haben Konjunktur in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Dabei fallen vor allem Texte an den Rändern des Genres ins Auge und Autoren, die bislang nicht mit Science Fiction in Verbindung gebracht wurden. Ursachen dafür sind das gegenwärtige Interesse für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-10-27
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This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-26
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This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind, shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor and can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-24
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This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in: digital and interaction design; graphic design and branding; design strategies and methodologies; design education; society and communication in design practice; and other related...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-22
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The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West.
Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West.
Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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