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The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date. In scope, the book encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the nineteenth century and its development to the present in every...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-01
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This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific...
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Springer
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2017-07-31
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This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-28
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Dieser Band entfaltet eine Theorie und Praxis der Literaturen der Welt ausgehend von Erich Auerbachs Auseinandersetzung mit dem von Goethe geprägten Weltliteratur-Konzept. Allein bewegungsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Kultur- und Literaturtheorien sind heute in der Lage,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-07-27
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This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-27
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This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-26
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For many decades Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti) and satirical dialogues (the Operette morali). The conceptual...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-26
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This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes on the great subjects of English literature in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Norman Conquest of England built upon the rich...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-26
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In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-25
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Platonic concerns and conceptions profoundly affected early modern English and continental poetics, yet the effects have had little attention. This book defines Platonism's roles in early modern theories of literature, then reappraise the Platonizing major poet Edmund...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-25
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This book focuses on the almost entirely neglected treatment of empire and colonialism in videogames. From its inception in the nineties, Game Studies has kept away from these issues despite the early popularity of videogame franchises such as Civilization and Age of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-24
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Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-21
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In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?' When Ashbery asks this strange...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-21
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Das lateinische Tierlobgedicht, eine poetische Untergattung des Enkomiums, ist in der Forschung bislang kaum beachtet worden. Die vorliegende Arbeit will diese Forschungslücke schließen. Sie schlägt einen weiten Bogen von den einflussreichen antiken Vorbildern aus der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-21
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Kleist, zu Lebzeiten ziemlich erfolglos, im 19. Jahrhundert von Goethes abschätzigen Urteilen verfolgt, hat seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts mit seinen Werken und als Person eine beispiellose Karriere erfahren. Die Abwertung des „preußischen Junkers“ von marxistischer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-07-20
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Der Sammelband beleuchtet die vielfältigen Auswirkungen der Reformation sowie die Verbreitung des Protestantismus in Spanien und Hispanoamerika vom 16. Jahrhundert bis heute aus (kirchen-)geschichtlicher, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Lange wurde...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-20
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Das Buch betrachtet das Lebenswerk des Reiseagenten und Schriftstellers Carl Stangen und seinen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Fremdenverkehrs und der Reiseliteratur. «Carl Stangen’s Reise-Bureau», oft als das «erste deutsche Reisebüro» bezeichnet, trug zur Fundierung von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-20
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This volume consists of twelve studies thematically grouped into three parts: (1) Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, (2) Hermeneutics and Text Linguistics, and (3) Lexicology and Phraseology. The phrase «tradition and innovation» characterizes almost all the texts...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-20
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This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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