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This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-05-19
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This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-19
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Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated...
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Polity
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2018-05-18
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This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-18
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Die Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle das Erinnern in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 und sodann nach dem Umbruch des Jahres 1989 spielt. Dabei werden unterschiedlich Formen der literarischen Konfiguration von Erinnerung...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-17
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This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The book argues that...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-16
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This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalization, and social matters gained are well-received. While mapping the genre, this monograph shows literary developments in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-14
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This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-05-14
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Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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"Wer je die flamme umschritt, / bleibe der flamme trabant": Es gibt wohl kaum jemanden in der historischen Jugendbewegung, den diese Verse Stefan Georges nicht gepackt hätten. Oft schon wurde der große Einfluss Georges auf die Jugendbewegung behauptet, nie hat man ihn...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-10
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This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and an array of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-09
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Redolent of the briny air of the sea and the lore of the seashore, Ocean Rimmed World captures the struggles and changing fortunes of the Parathavars of the Tuticorin coast—a community of seafarers and fisherfolk renowned for their courage, relentless toil, and...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published. Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about service with the British...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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