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This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-01
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Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-29
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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-28
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The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-28
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The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-28
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Wie ist Literatur zu konzipieren, damit die Literaturdidaktik als wissenschaftliche Disziplin und der Literaturunterricht als Praxis theoretisch fundiert und produktiv entfaltet werden können? Diese Frage steht im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Buches. Durch eine Analyse...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-03-25
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Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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In sechs Kapiteln geht das Buch der Rezeption von lateinischer Literatur der Antike und des Mittelalters durch deutsche Autoren namentlich des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts nach. Erzählt werden Geschichten von einem unbeachtet gebliebenen Fortleben, um das sich bekannte oder...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2019-03-20
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This book takes Korean as a basis to provide a detailed universal Determiner Phrase (DP) structure. Adnominal adjectival expressions are apparently optional noun dependents but their syntax and semantics have been shown to provide an important window on the internal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-20
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The extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-19
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Laurenz Schulz liefert neue Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich der Etymologie und des regionalen Ursprungs des Kitschbegriffs und zeigt auf, dass die Werte Wahrheit, Originalität und Distanz dessen Bedeutung in invertierter Form dominieren. Die bisher in der Forschung gängige...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-03-13
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This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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Uses the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersionsStudies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-08
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"The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-06
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This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses.This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-28
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The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-28
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The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-28
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Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-22
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