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This volume comes at a time of rapid expansion in the discipline of Translation Studies and the growth of related journals. Experts and editors of leading journals in the field probe the interactive relationship between the production of journals and the development of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-21
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Shakespeare's characters are thought to be his greatest achievement--imaginatively autonomous, possessed of depth and individuality, while his plots are said to be second-hand and careless of details of time and place. This view has survived the assaults of various...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-16
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Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-16
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The book offers ten essays which explore the interaction between literature and politics.The authors investigate a variety of genres including young-adult fiction, national poetry, novels, autobiography, and performance art from different time periods ranging from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-16
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At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's Inferno down to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-15
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In the conservative and competitive society of ancient Rome, where the law of the father (patria potestas) was supposedly absolute, motherhood took on complex aesthetic, moral, and political meanings in elite literary discourse. Reproducing Rome is a study of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-14
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This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-12
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Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Erzählen vom Tod im Bilderbuch in historischer und gattungstheoretischer Perspektive und bildet anhand eines Textkorpus’ von 287 deutschen bzw. ins Deutsche übersetzten Titeln die Entwicklung von 1945 bis 2011 ab. Entwickelt wird ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-09
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The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it.The author shows how some of the central...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-09
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Much has been written about the contribution of ancient Greece to modern discourses of homosexuality, but Rome's significant rôle has been largely overlooked. Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities explores the contested history of responses...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas.The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OFTHE GOTHIC “Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
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Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-04
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This study is a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Norman Mailer’s entire œuvre, including not only his fiction and non-fiction, but also his correspondence, his early journal articles and his interviews. It outlines Mailer’s Entwicklungsgeschichte, illuminating the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-02
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Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-01
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