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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-12-03
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Literary Lives
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This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop’s writing. This collection considers Bishop’s reworking of metrical and rhythmic forms of poetry; the increasing presence of prosaic utterances...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-28
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How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, Genre and White Supremacy in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-28
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This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Voss’s exploration of the interior of Australia, as a parable of the writer’s exploration of the Australian historical, social and cultural context of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-28
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This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
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In diesem Buch analysiert Edvin Cami Polaritäten wie Ost und West, Islam und Christentum, Religion und Säkularität, Eigenheit und Fremdheit, Konflikt und Begegnung im literarischen Schaffen Goethes. Über die Gedichtsammlung West-östlicher Divan hinaus wird das Thema...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-27
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Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-26
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Das Werk Adalbert Stifters zeichnet sich durch eine markante Aufmerksamkeit für das Kleine und vermeintlich Geringfügige aus, er gilt als Dichter des Details. Bereits die zeitgenössische Kritik hat sein „Diminutivtalent“ und Interesse für das „Kleinleben der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-26
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Winner of the 2020 C. Hugh Holman Award
William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-26
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Winner of the 2020 C. Hugh Holman Award
William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-26
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George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poetGeorge Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century. Interweaving analysis of Meredith’s novels and poems with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
Collection :
Literary Lives
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This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene? And what can reading teach us? To answer these questions, the book develops a concept of transcultural ecology that understands...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
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The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-21
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How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, Genre and White Supremacy in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Dreißig Jahre lang unterstützte den Dichter und Übersetzer Rudolf Alexander Schröder, den herausragenden Wegbereiter und eigenständigen Vertreter der literarischen Moderne, der Altphilologe und Komparatist Ernst Zinn, Editor der Werke Rilkes, Borchardts und Kassners....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Dieses Buch ist die erste umfangreiche Zusammenstellung der Prosawerke von zwei Schlüsselautoren der polnischen Moderne, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878-1911) und Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969).
«Konarzewskas Arbeit verdient es […], als innovativ bezeichnet zu werden und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-19
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