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This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today’s economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-08
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Die unterschiedlichen Erzählformen der Idylle in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes. Spätestens seit Jean Paul hat sich die Idylle aus ihren arkadischen Szenerien herausgelöst und ist in alle Winkel der erzählten Welt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-11-08
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According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete. The irony of this story is that the "death of the novel" at the hands of film has for a long time now been a pervasive trope of the novel's continued reinvention. The Novel...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-03
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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book attempts to understand what ‘contemporary’ has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-01
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In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Although blind and other...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to reconstruct the social symbolic order in a new and unfamiliar way. Social historians have routinely understood the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-31
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The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-28
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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent’s end of the American West, Jeffers’ poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Ein Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik findet trotz kritischer bildungspolitischer Entwicklungen für das Französische bisher kaum statt. Um diese Zusammenarbeit zu etablieren, wählten die Herausgeberinnen für die Beiträge dieses Bandes ein innovatives...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing onGreece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This volume considers Joseph Conrad’s use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own. In his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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Vor dem Hintergrund der Diskussion um Anthropozän und Klimawandel zeichnet der Band die historische Veränderung atmosphärischer Erscheinungen im Bezug auf sich wandelnde Erkenntnisverfahren nach. Die Beiträge des Bandes konfrontieren die wissenschaftliche Erforschung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-24
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