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We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-15
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This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law. The interdisciplinary and comparative essays explore the marital experience beyond the ‘matrimonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-14
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In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical—has been dangerously...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. It concentrates on how food has transformed autobiographical narratives and how these define the ways men eat and cook nowadays. After presenting a historical overview of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-11
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We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-08
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In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-08
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In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers have taken Socrates at his word, and out of the ancient quarrel there...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-08
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With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove.
Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-12-08
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This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance. The essays explore Moore’s participation in modernist movements and communities, her impact on subsequent generations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-06
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's dementia, an ordeal that marked his final two decades, has never been a secret among those who study Emerson's life. Still, few have focused on the period of Emerson's decline. Thus, his later thinking has succumbed to a process of critical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-05
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Das Kompendium nimmt zum ersten Mal die umfangreiche Lyrik Nietzsches in ihrer Gesamtheit in den Blick und gibt so einen Nachweis der Gleichberechtigung von Nietzsches Lyrik im Kontext seines Schaffens. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Beiträge, die einzelne Gedichte und lyrische...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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Ausgehend von der These, dass Literatur im 21. Jahrhundert in vielfacher Weise durch das Phänomen der Wanderung geprägt ist (von der Thematisierung von Migration bis zur beschleunigten ‚Wanderung‘ von Texten über Sprach- und Nationalgrenzen hinweg) stellt der aus einer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-12-03
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Das Buch vor dem Film. – Am 31. August 1928 schlug Brechts Dreigroschenoper im Berliner Theater am Schiffbauerdamm wie eine Bombe ein und beendete die Herrschaft der hohen Kultur in Deutschland. Doch Brechts größter Erfolg ging bald in der Unterhaltungsindustrie auf:...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-12-03
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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-02
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This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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