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From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These questions are explored in this volume through the lens of law and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-15
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This book examines the deeper meaning of the advent of the Al Jazeera Media Network with regard to ongoing debates on global communication ethics, not only in the global public sphere but also in terms of its influence on new non-Western approaches to media ethics....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-15
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Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-15
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This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theatre history is...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-13
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This book examines China’s role and its cultural productions in the process of environmental destruction and transformation, focusing on how various cultural media play a significant role in shaping and reproducing Chinese subject formation in relation to changing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-07
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A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose timeless works...
Editeur :
Pelican
Parution :
2019-05-02
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The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections. One of the most stable of these consisted of the nine (rarely ten) lyric poets: whether the selection was based on poetic quality, popularity, or the availability of texts in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections. One of the most stable of these consisted of the nine (rarely ten) lyric poets: whether the selection was based on poetic quality, popularity, or the availability of texts in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-30
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What is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right, has been that work is both a natural necessity and, barring exploitation, a social good. One might criticise its management, its compensation and who...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-26
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The gruesome double-murder upon which the novel Crime and Punishment hinges leads its culprit, Raskolnikov, into emotional trauma and obsessive, destructive self-reflection. But Raskolnikov's famous philosophical musings are just part of the full philosophical thought...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-26
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This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-26
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This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior theoretical approaches, and indicators through characteristics of postmodernist fiction, this book identifies a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-25
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How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author's character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author's character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographies—the Life of Antony, the Life of Paul the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory’s recent work on time owes a debt to modernist authors who developed new ways of representing temporality in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This book analyzes the distinguished modern Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the methodology of Qur’anic exegesis in his Risale-i Nur Collection, with special reference to the views of the early Muslim modernist intellectuals such as Muhammad ‘Abduh. It seeks...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-23
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Lange bevor Deutschland als politische oder nationale Einheit überhaupt gedacht werden konnte, gab es ein dichterisches Sprechen über »unser lant« (Walther von der Vogelweide). Davon handelt dieses Buch – und wie sich diese Rede im Lauf der Jahrhunderte bis in die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-04-23
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