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Gesellschaftsdiagnosen durchkreuzen die Soziologiegeschichte in sehr unterschiedlichen Formen. Während sich geschichtsphilosophische Traditionslinien weitestgehend verflüchtigt haben, bestimmen aktuell interdisziplinäre und intermediale Experimentierfelder das Geschäft...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-16
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This book offers a cutting-edge compilation of studies on (re)conceptualized traditions in a wide variety of discourses such as the language of emotion, folklore, religion and morality, the natural environment, idioms and proverbs. It also raises complex theoretical and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-16
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-16
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This volume belongs to the new critical edition of the complete works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and in accordance with the principles of modern textual scholarship.This volume comprises the first critical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-14
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The 6th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2024) will be held on October 18–20, 2024 in Xi'an, China. Literature is an art that reflects the social life and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-13
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The book explores the intimate connection between poetry and politics in modernity and, in particular, in liberal and fascist Italy. Through a historical and interdisciplinary approach, the essays focus on various fundamental passages of liberal system crisis: political...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-12-13
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This book aims to bring to readers the author’s elaborated focus on the dynamic process of sign emergence, use, fixation and un-fixation, and dismissal. Its uniqueness is in its reliance on the organizing limits of irreversible time that renders the meaning construction...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-13
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-12
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What makes fiction recognizable as fiction? Texts are shaped by their material print, but this book argues that they can also be made in response to it: that the needs of the magazine in the nineteenth century spurred writers to create hybrid, entangled texts. Using...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-11
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Das Buch untersucht die vielschichtige Darstellung von Melancholie in zwei bedeutenden literarischen Werken der chinesischen und deutschen Literatur. Es beleuchtet die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Melancholie in literarischen, kulturellen und historischen Kontexten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-11
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Während Männlichkeit früher vorrangig mit positiven Eigenschaften attribuiert worden ist, wird sie nun zunehmend als eine negative oder gar bedrohliche gesellschaftliche Kraft wahrgenommen. Der Autor dieser Studie greift diese gesellschaftliche Tendenz auf und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-11
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Der Schweizer Literaturkritiker Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783) befasste sich fünf Jahrzehnte lang damit, seine Übersetzung des epischen Gedichtes Paradise Lost (1667) von John Milton (1608–1674) verbessernd zu überarbeiten. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, welche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-10
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With few exceptions, the unsurpassable inequality between cultures on the literary field and in the imaginary Republic of Letters remains underemphasized and a more radical reconsideration is needed with regard to vernacular and peripheral forms of understanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-09
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Eine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-09
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Eine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-06
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An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Bringing to view a selection of Butler's unpublished writings and drawings, this book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with horses and other...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-04
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This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature, Finnigan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-04
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Women writers offer us rich and diverse perspectives on exile, yet they remain relatively unexplored in the scholarship. This book aims to address this omission by illuminating the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-03
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This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black Consciousness Movement, in addition to its urgent political focus,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-12-03
Collection :
Critical South
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Possiamo comprendere il lavoro attraverso le rappresentazioni culturali e artistiche? Dipende. Se ci interessano gli aspetti pratici, come l’organizzazione e la gestione del lavoro, la risposta è no. Ma diventa sì se esploriamo il significato che l’esperienza del lavoro...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-12-03
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