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This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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Das Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der Böhmischen Länder gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Literatur einer mitteleuropäischen Region und ihre Entwicklung seit der Aufklärung. Dabei werden bisherige Konzeptualisierungen, die u.a. von einer strikten...
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J.B. Metzler
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2017-11-30
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This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-30
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This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
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Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
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This book offers fresh critical interpretation of two of the central tenets of Irish culture – migration and memory. From its starting point with the ‘New Irish’ generation of poets in the United States during the 1980s and concluding with the technological innovations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
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Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture. Analysis of the changing rhetoric surrounding the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition serves to highlight the political and economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-11-29
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Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-11-29
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The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-11-29
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This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-28
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This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century later,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which Milton develops...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged ‘first’ cities.This volume problematizes the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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What explains the enduring popularity of white-authored protest fiction about racism in America? How have such books spoken to the racial crises of their time, and why do they remain important in our own era? White Writers, Race Matters explores these questions and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-22
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This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley – in relation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-20
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