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This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-16
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This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-03-15
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An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise and highly...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-03-14
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Reading the Novel
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This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-13
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Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-12
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Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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Modernist Physics takes as its focus the ideas associated with three scientific papers published by Albert Einstein in 1905, considering the dissemination of those ideas both within and beyond the scientific field, and exploring the manifestation of similar ideas in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-09
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This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry’s propagation, and the second exploring its further...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-03-08
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In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-03-08
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'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued'One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown masterpiece,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-03-08
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This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-07
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In diesem Buch beschreibt Helmut Grugger, wie poetische Texte hochgradig reflektierte Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Komplex des Psychotraumas erzeugen, und zeigt so, dass gerade Literatur hoher Qualität für die unterschiedlichen Diskurse zum Thema Trauma von höchstem...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-03-02
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To what extent, and in what manner, do storytelling practices accommodate nonhuman subjects and their modalities of experience, and how can contemporary narrative study shed light on interspecies interactions and entanglements? In Narratology beyond the Human, David...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-01
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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-01
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This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of Browning's poetry. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-01
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To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-28
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Die Studie von Jill Bühler untersucht ausgehend von Richard von Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia sexualis (1886) die literarische und wissenshistorische Vorgeschichte des Lustmords. Sie stellt fest, dass sich Krafft-Ebings Theorie maßgeblich aus literarischen und ...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-28
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Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-23
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