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In diesem Buch untersucht Juliane Fiedler die deutsche Nationswerdung im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1848. Die Arbeit zeigt zum einen die Haltung der betrachteten Autoren zum deutschen Nationalismus und zu ihrer teilweise doppelt empfundenen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-24
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An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-10-24
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976). Offering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-20
Collection :
Canon and World Literature
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This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics. In particular the contributed chapters introduce advanced techniques and concepts from...
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Springer
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2017-10-20
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In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great men, women and mystical creatures to arise, influence and shape the course of its history. Here in this book, Tolkien...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2017-10-20
Collection :
Tolkien
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This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-19
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Minu Hedayati-Aliabadi zeigt anhand ihrer deutsch–US-amerikanischen Studie, dass der Begriff Slam Poetry in erster Linie als Bedeutungsträger für performative, zeitgenössische und interaktive Literatur verwendet wird, während die reale Ausprägung bei Veranstaltungen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-18
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Die Weiträumigkeit und Formenvielfalt der Erde, ihrer Orte und Landschaften zu entdecken und in sprachliche Bilder zu fassen, bildet den vitalen Grundimpuls des Reisens und Schreibens für Peter Handke, den österreichischen Schriftsteller von Weltrang. Erstmals wird hier...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-18
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This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-18
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This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives, proposing an alternative mapping of the field by focusing on different loci and sources of capital. Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Paris, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book views Romantic literature’s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts;...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in psychoanalysis,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices. By focusing on contemporary narratives in English from 1990 to the present, the essays in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-14
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This book examines Uncreative Writing—the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry—against a decade of controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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