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The thesis of the book is that in the early modern period, literature claimed precedence over the observation of nature. There were shifts through phases of temporary parity, the priority of natural sciences in the 19th century, and their critique by literature in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-08-14
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Thomas Mann ist bekannt für die enge Verknüpfung seines Werks und seiner Selbstinszenierung mit Deutschland, seiner Kultur und Literatur. Weniger beachtet wurde hingegen, dass er diese Bezüge zunehmend in einen internationalen Kontext stellte und gezielt...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-08-13
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This book moves the field of study of Arab women’s writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the “bravery” that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Der vorliegende Open Access-Band leuchtet den Zusammenhang von Übersetzung und Raum in spezifisch frühneuzeitlichen Untersuchungssettings exemplarisch aus. Dazu setzt er von zwei Seiten an: Erstens fragen Beiträge aus Germanistik, Judaistik, Latinistik...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Graham Greene in the 1930s presents a major new reading of Greene’s literary works and critical writings from the 1930s, a period of increasing academic interest and importance. Greene’s works from this period encompass a wide range of forms, genres and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communities that have been marginalized in colonial discourses attempt to reconstruct their identities, histories, and narratives through the use of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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This volume explores the theme of age and aging, uniquely combining personal reflections from literature professors with sound scholarly analysis of a range of fiction and poetry. Bringing together leading literary scholars, this collection of essays covers a range of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-08
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"C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorizing the Other traces how the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy achieved global recognition through the writings and advocacy of E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Stephen...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel. These...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-05
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The Mayajala-sutra is a unique Buddhist sutra which is contained in the newly discovered manuscript of the Sanskrit Buddhist canonical collection called the Dirgha-agama (The Long Collection).The discovery of this Sanskrit manuscript in the 1990s was a major development...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-31
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Erzählen ist eine Alltagspraxis und zugleich eine Praxis, in der Alltag (re-)produziert wird. Denn dasErzählen im Alltag hat selten das wirklich Außergewöhnliche und Unerhörte zum Gegenstand. In der Regel dreht es sich um Gewöhnliches, um...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-31
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Since Dalit theatre has not garnered as much recognition as the other genres of Dalit literature have, this book, being one of the pioneering works in the field, aims to highlight the genre within the framework of Dalit literature and the Dalit Movement in India. ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book intervenes in the current discussion concerning so-called "minor" English literature of the late 1820s and early 1830s. Writing in the late Romantic period, this study charts the declining economic market for individual poetry volumes as other markets were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience – for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman and Emma DabiriWordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats – the Romantic poets are titans of English literature,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-07-31
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Il presente volume propone una riflessione sul legame tra poesia e mare all’interno della produzione letteraria italiana e spagnola del secolo XX, cercando di recuperare, dalla lettura degli autori scelti, i segni di un’esperienza diretta con l’elemento, imprescindibile...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-31
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Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes holds a renowned position in the history of modernism across various arts. The company's daring productions brought together leading artists working in diverse fields - from Igor Stravinsky to Pablo Picasso, from Bronislava Nijinska to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-30
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht in einer komparatistisch angelegten Studie literarische Werke, die Opioide thematisieren. Grundlage der Analyse sind die Texte »Confessions of an English Opium-Eater« (1821/22) von Thomas De Quincey, »Junky«...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-28
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) ist zweifellos einer der bedeutendsten und vielseitigsten Theoretiker der Aufklärung. Die Wirkung seines politischen, soziologischen, moralphilosophischen, pädagogischen, linguistischen, botanischen und kompositorischen Werks erstreckte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-25
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'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?'
Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-24
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Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-24
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