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Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy, by 1900 the microscope rivaled the railway and telegraph as an emblem of modernity and enjoyed an astonishing diversity...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-02
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This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholders: experiencers and creators. While the concept of immersion has gained widespread currency in the last decades beyond video games, its critical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
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This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation. They were effectually substitutes for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-29
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In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Petrofiction als eine neue Strömung der Gegenwartsliteratur herausgebildet. Diese hat in der ökologisch orientierten Literaturwissenschaft und seiner Erweiterung, dem Material Ecocriticism, als Teilbereich der Environmental Humanities,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-27
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This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume is to analyse the panorama of contemporary literary fiction in Portuguese under the prism of the economization of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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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
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2024-11-25
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This book offers a detailed analysis of China’s original view of literature and art theory and critical practice from the ancient to the modern period, providing views on dancing, image making, the circulation of artifacts, critical theory, creative writing, art design,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-21
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Dieses Handbuch stellt das erste Nachschlagewerk zur Weltliteratin Friederike Mayröcker dar, die in ihrer enormen Produktivität ein nahezu unüberschaubares Œuvre vorgelegt hat. Ihr oft als komplex charakterisiertes Werk wird anhand von Einzeldarstellungen der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-19
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Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden. Friedrich Schleiermachers Fragment gebliebenes Interpretationssystem wird...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-11-19
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This is the first literary study on the New Woman's interaction with modern speed culture through use of the typewriter and the bicycle. These technologies of speed are among the earliest to be associated with middle-class women, exposing them to the discipline of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-18
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This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the contributions of Milton and his writings to demonstrate how major social movements appropriated him in ways that “reinvent”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-16
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Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-16
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**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**‘Lively and humane… Reade’s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning’ GUARDIANSummoned in Haiti’s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the revolutionary...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2024-11-14
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature. In addition to a focused exploration of the individual stories and themes that make up...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-14
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A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea’s most prominent living poets'Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You’ve got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-11-14
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This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-14
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatness and gain lasting fame.
In thisVery Short Introduction,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-13
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This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange. Emergent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-12
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