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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-29
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This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-29
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This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period. The first selection to place Clough's poetry alongside his...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-29
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This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-28
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This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-26
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This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-26
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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Derrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, as ‘the question of the animal’, in relation to literary texts. Rodolfo Piskorski intervenes in the current debate regarding the non-human and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-24
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This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction—primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-23
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Die internationale Tagung, die 2017 in Bologna stattfand, widmete sich unter dem Titel Tierwelten und Textwelten Themen, die sich der Forschungsrichtung der Human-Animal-Studies zuschlagen lassen, allerdings aus der Sicht der klassischen Literaturwissenschaften, wo...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-23
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This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various anti-colonial projects. In contrast to the ghosts and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-22
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?In Mexiko steigt die Gewalt in den letzten Jahren weiter an, eine Aufklärung bleibt aber meist aus. Literatur übernimmt in dem Kontext die wichtige Funktion, Gewalt und Traumata artikulierbar zu machen. Dies wird an einem neu zusammengestellten...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-09-22
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This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-22
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Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-21
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Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-19
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This work explores Dickens’s perception of Italy as it appears in the travel book Pictures from Italy. Corpus methodologies, alongside the notion of intersectionality, display the writer’s multi-faceted interpretation of the Italians and his efforts to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-18
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Im Zentrum des Buches stehen zwei Essays von den Autoren, die sich nach den geopolitischen Schreibweisen richten. Es werden dabei drei Begriffe hervorgehoben: Anverwandlung (Goethe) in Bezug auf den Umgang mit dem deutschen Erbe in Polen und in Tschechien (Jörg Bernig),...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-17
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Mit dieser Edition von Kleists Handschrift »Der zerbrochne Krug« wird eine textgenetische Darstellung vorgelegt, die Kleists zahlreiche, teilweise komplexen Textänderungen en detail rekonstruiert. Methodisches Instrumentarium für die Rekonstruktion bildet die...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-09-16
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In zehn Kapiteln stellen die Autoren jeweils zehn Meisterwerke der deutschen Literatur vor - nicht chronologisch sortiert, sondern thematisch gebündelt.In den ausgewählten Büchern geht es um Humor und Melancholie, Liebe und Schmerz, Gesellschaft und Familien, Abenteuer...
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-09-16
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