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This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-28
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This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays discuss texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and bear witness...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Explores the challenges of maintaining bonds, living up to ideals, and fulfilling desire in Shakespeare’s plays In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-07-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-26
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Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-25
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-25
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The Road to Wicked examines the long life of the Oz myth. It is both a study in cultural sustainability— the capacity of artists, narratives, art forms, and genres to remain viable over time—and an examination of the marketing machinery and consumption patterns that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-24
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Seit dem Beginn der Moderne im späten 18. Jahrhundert gibt es in der deutschsprachigen Lyrik Bestrebungen, die ‚multimediale Ganzheit‘, die die Lyrik in der Vormoderne vielfach gebildet hatte, unter den Bedingungen der modernen Schriftkultur wiederzugewinnen. Lyrik wird...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-23
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Das literarische Werk Theodor Fontanes ist erstaunlich gegenwärtig geblieben. Denn er gestaltete Individuen in gesellschaftlichen Verstrickungen, deren Muster bis heute fortbestehen. Dabei registrierte er, wie die jüngste Forschung zeigt, neue Entwicklungen in Politik,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-23
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Die Studie setzt an der Schnittstelle von wissenschaftlicher Sprachkritik und naturwüchsiger Sprachbewertung an und versucht das historisch schwierige Verhältnis zwischen Laienlinguistik und Linguistik zu regulieren.Die zentrale These, dass viele der Schwierigkeiten im...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-23
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This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-23
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Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-20
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator, defined as a cultural actor active...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-20
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'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.'
Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-19
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Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest writing in humanistic, critical and cultural gerontology, this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-18
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Die Fabel vom Schwarzkünstler Faust gehört zu den großen Stoffen der Weltliteratur. Ihre Ursprünge liegen in der Umbruchszeit zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, durch Goethes Bearbeitung erlangte sie Weltruhm. Daneben stehen zahlreiche Adaptionen in allen Kulturen, in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-14
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Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Derek Mahon, Sarah Kirsch, Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl, bringing together postwar English- and German-language poetry and criticism on the theme of space, place and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men. Examining an eclectic array of literary case studies in light of recent work...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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