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This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-13
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This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-11
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This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-11
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-11
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This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida’s work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought. Ergin introduces the notion of "ecological text" to emphasize textuality as a form of entanglement that proves useful in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-11
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2017 erscheint der 56. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er präsentiert aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte Heinrich Heines, darunter Analysen moderner Heine-Vertonungen aus dem 20. Jahrhundert und eine Studie über ein fälschlicherweise Heine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-10
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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Das Standardwerk „Deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1950“ von Hans-Albert Walter wird mit diesem Band abgeschlossen. Die bereits vorliegenden Bände behandeln das europäische Appeasement und überseeische Asylpraxis (Bd. 2), Internierung, Flucht und Lebensbedingungen im Zweiten...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-10-10
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This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history of the group and its relation to the Latin American literary tradition, while the second...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-05
Collection :
Blackwell History of Literature
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'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life?What if my love is not returned?Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life's...
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Penguin
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2017-10-05
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This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century colonialism. With the analysis of writings by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Philip Mazzei, and Olaudah Equiano,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-04
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This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music. It examines artistic portrayal of intimate relationships as a subversion of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-04
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Dieser Themenband beschäftigt sich mit Fragen der zunehmenden Automation und Vernetzung, die unseren Alltag durchdringen. Die Perspektive der Autoren erlaubt einen neuen Blick auf den Umgang und die Nutzung von Daten durch Menschen und Maschinen, sowie die Veränderung...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2017-10-04
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This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition. Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological science, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-04
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This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading and writing practices of medieval author Christine de Pizan and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This volume uncovers the ideas concerning everyday life circulating in the burgeoning feminist periodical culture of Britain in the early twentieth century. Barbara Green explores the ways in which the feminist press used its correspondence columns, women’s pages,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-03
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Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), popularly, Ghalib, is the most influential poet of the Urdu language. He is noted for the ghazals he wrote during his lifetime, which have since been interpreted and sung by different people in myriad ways. Ghalib’s popularity has today...
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OUP India
Parution :
2017-10-03
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