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This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-31
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This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-31
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This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-26
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This book explores ways in which Shakespeare’s writing strategies shape our embodied perception of objects – both real and imaginary – in four of his plays. Taking the reader on a series of perceptual journeys, it engages in an exciting dialogue between the disciplines...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-24
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This book discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises the genre's political, ethical, and aesthetic value. Far-reaching cultural, political, and technological changes during the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
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This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
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Die Adoleszenz ist eine Lebensphase des Übergangs, der Veränderung und des Umbruchs. Diese Prozesse werden in literarischen Darstellungen häufig in Bewegungen durch den Raum übersetzt. Der erzählte Raum ist dabei in seiner Konstruktion und Semantik als komplexer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-12-19
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These essays by critics, theorists and artists explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of ‘negrura-oscuridad’ in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-12-19
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Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long been imagined as the death of sentimental feeling, modernist literary innovation has been understood to reject...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-17
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Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long been imagined as the death of sentimental feeling, modernist literary innovation has been understood to reject...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-17
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In Probability Designs, Karin Kukkonen proposes a new perspective on the complex role of predictions and probabilities in the dynamics of literary narrative. Predictive processing, an emerging account of cognition in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, provides...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-17
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Zwischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur- und -medienforschung und anderen Fachdisziplinen bestehen zahlreiche Schnittstellen. Von diesen ausgehend werden in dem Band unterschiedliche Perspektiven und Theorieansätze diskutiert und deren Potenzial für eine literatur- und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism recovers a neglected literary history. In the late 1950s, news began to arrive in Britain of a group of French writers who were remaking the form of the novel. In the work of Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-10
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This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-10
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Ann-Kristin Haude spürt hier der Komplexität des Wasserraums nach, indem sie 14 Prosatexte aus der deutschsprachigen Literatur der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit der Zielsetzung untersucht, die literarische Architektur der Relationierung zwischen Wasserräumen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-12-09
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The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism recovers a neglected literary history. In the late 1950s, news began to arrive in Britain of a group of French writers who were remaking the form of the novel. In the work of Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
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