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'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's something marvellous in the realisation that one of the most beautiful and longest-lasting cures has been here all along - on the...
Editeur :
Yellow Kite
Parution :
2018-10-04
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What has Emma Woodhouse, "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and very little to distress or vex her" to say to a discipline like philosophy? How is a novel like Emma, inaccurately but not infrequently caricatured as a high-toned version of a pedestrian...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-04
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How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance?How can a culture in which theatre played no part in the past create a theatrical tradition in the modern world?How do political and social conditions affect the encounter...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ‘diverging’ from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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This book is about Africa in the postcolonial trend of thinking and mutual representations of peoples of different cultures. From a literary approach and culture-based illustrations, the essay explores postcolonial ideas, realities and discourses in African letters and...
Editeur :
Les Impliqués
Parution :
2018-10-02
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This book explores?at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies?the current and future role of museums for art and society. Given the dynamic developments in art and society, museums need to change in order to remain...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-01
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Die Studie widmet sich einem blinden Fleck der Literaturgeschichte: derjenigen Literatur während der Befreiungskriege 1813-1815, die zugleich einen antinapoleonischen Federkrieg führte. Im Zentrum des Buches stehen die Formen und Funktionen von Autorschaft, die sich...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-01
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The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-29
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This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines why Romantic and Victorian writers (including Wordsworth, Dickens, De Quincey, Godwin, and D’Israeli) believed that influencing the imaginative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-29
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This collection gives a diversified account of world literature, examining not only the rise of the concept, but also problems such as the relation between the local and the universal, and the tensions between national culture and global ethics. In this context, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-28
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This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates.This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace’s work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-28
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This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-27
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This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the methodology of...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-26
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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-26
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This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
Collection :
History of British Women's Writing
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This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood ‘from a distance’. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by the experiences of an Irish diaspora predominantly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
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By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age. The epistemological link between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
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This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
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This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction. It argues that contemporary Gothic is not simply a secularised genre, but rather one that engages creatively – and often subversively – with theological texts and traditions.This creative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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Der Dichter Klopstock hatte einen überwältigenden Erfolg von kurzer Dauer. Er erfand eine lyrische Masche, die er in Weiterführung Miltons episch verankerte. Damit entsprach er für einen Moment in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts, gleichzeitig mit Baumgartens Begründung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-21
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