| |
Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populateBlake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
PDF, ePub
|
Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
PDF, ePub
|
Hymnische Dichtung gehört zu den ältesten Formen poetischen Ausdrucks. Götter werden angefleht, Helden besungen, die Schönheit gepriesen. Die Texte gestalten zu diesem Zweck ein Sprechen an den Grenzen des Menschen: Sie behaupten, das Äußerste zum Ausdruck zu bringen,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-06-25
PDF
|
In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-21
ePub
|
This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-20
PDF, ePub
|
Das Kompendium verzeichnet alle nachweisbaren Schiller-Vertonungen, die von den 1780er Jahren bis zur Gegenwart entstanden sind. Dabei wurden sowohl Schillers Gedichte als auch seine Dramen berücksichtigt. Überwiegend handelt es sich um Lieder, Chöre, Kantaten,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-06-20
Collection :
Musik in Baden-Württemberg | Quellen und Studien
PDF
|
This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-19
PDF, ePub
|
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-18
PDF, ePub
|
There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
ePub
|
There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
PDF
|
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-17
ePub
|
This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this collection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-14
PDF, ePub
|
'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 :
2018-06-14
ePub
|
In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-14
PDF
|
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-14
PDF
|
Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-14
PDF, ePub
|
This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the consuming public. Concurrent with the rise of modern advertising, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
PDF, ePub
|
In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-13
ePub
|
The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
PDF, ePub
|
Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-12
PDF, ePub
|