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Robert Walser gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Prosa-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl er mit seinen Romanen »Geschwister Tanner«, »Der Gehülfe« und »Jakob von Gunten« in Literatenkreisen früh eine gewisse Bekanntheit erwarb, bewegte sich Walser Zeit seines...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-05
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This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
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Was leistet die Literaturwissenschaft, wie liest man Texte, welche Leitlinien und Überzeugungen liegen Interpretationen zugrunde? Dieser Frage wird anhand der faszinierenden Rezeptionsgeschichte von Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Die Judenbuche (1842) nachgegangen. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2018-02-03
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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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
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2018-02-02
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This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf. Casting them as spaces which are at once material, textual and emotional, the volume shows Woolf’s rooms to be consistently connected to wider geographies of modernity and therefore...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-01
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This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer visibility of 'the Turk' in plays staged between 1567 and 1642 has tended to be interpreted...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-01
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The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth century, a work that became one of the most influential works of vernacular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-01
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This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, other manifestations of “Guantánamo,” and the contested place of freedom in American Empire. It presents the work of scholars and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-30
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This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-29
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This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-28
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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This monograph examines how higher education(HE) institutions construct ‘professional identities’ in the classroom, specifically how dominant discourses in institutions frame the social role, requisite skills and character required to practice a profession, and how...
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Springer
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2018-01-27
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In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority. It signals divinely inspired literary creativity. It is central to Dryden's theoretical defences of the relationship between literature and the passions. It is also crucial to his poetic practice in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-25
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Die hier versammelten Studien behandeln Formen von Thomas Manns Erzählen, die meist weniger im Mittelpunkt stehen, etwa das Lyrisch-Idyllische, sein Liebäugeln mit dem Don Quichotismus in Texten, die sich als fortgesetzter Versuch einer umfassenden, mehr oder minder...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-01-24
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-24
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Over the centuries leading up to their composition many genres and authors have emerged as influences on Horace's Satires, which in turn has led to a wide variety of scholarly interpretations. This study aims to expand the existing dialogue by exploring further the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-19
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Over the centuries leading up to their composition many genres and authors have emerged as influences on Horace's Satires, which in turn has led to a wide variety of scholarly interpretations. This study aims to expand the existing dialogue by exploring further the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-19
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This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare’s sources, suggesting that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-19
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This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of ‘classic’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-16
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This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-10
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