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Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery. While previous studies have stressed these plays'...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-15
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This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-14
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This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that disruptions were primarily the result of encounters with new communication and transportation technologies....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-14
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From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial "progress" mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? Untimely Democracy:...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-13
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This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-13
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An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-12
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This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping Chicana/o literary and cultural history from the critical regional perspective of the Mexican...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-07
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'Joking is teaching, so take care to listen -
Don't look at just the joke's form of expression.
To jesters every serious thing's hilarious,
While to the wise hilarious jokes are serious'
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-07
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This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world; or can international adoption and the personal experiences of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book is the first book devoted entirely to Hughes as an environmental activist and writer. Drawing on the rapidly-growing interest in poetry and the environment, the book deploys insights from ecopoetics, ecocriticism and Anthropocene studies to analyse how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-06
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In this book, Eva Yampolsky explores the questions of identity, illusion and suicide in the works of Guy de Maupassant. Utilizing a historical context which stimulated numerous social, technological and scientific transformations and developments during the 19th...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-09-05
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This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-05
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Kindler Kompakt präsentiert in handlichen Ausgaben die wichtigsten Autoren und Werke eines Jahrhunderts oder einer Gattung. Dazu gibt es eine kompakte Einleitung des Herausgebers, der die großen Linien zieht, das Wesentliche zusammenfasst. - Die Schätze aus Kindlers...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technologies and the invention of motion pictures, it claims that stillness is nonetheless an essential tactic of modernist...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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'Joking is teaching, so take care to listen -
Don't look at just the joke's form of expression.
To jesters every serious thing's hilarious,
While to the wise hilarious jokes are serious'
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-01
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The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Kindler Kompakt präsentiert in handlichen Ausgaben die wichtigsten Autoren und Werke eines Jahrhunderts oder einer Gattung. Dazu gibt es eine kompakte Einleitung des Herausgebers, der die großen Linien zieht, das Wesentliche zusammenfasst. - Die Schätze aus Kindlers...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-31
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