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Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über neue und neueste Literatur aus Ex-Jugoslawien, Bulgarien, Albanien und Griechenland und stellt Romane (und Kurzgeschichten) folgender Autor*innen vor: David Albahari, Lindita Arapi, Lana Bastašic, Rumena Bužarovska, Artrit Bytyçi,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-11-11
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While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-10
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Four years on from George Floyd’s murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevant—whether in performance, in the classroom, or in scholarship—to the pressing issues of social and climate justice. This question, however, is accompanied by the acute and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-09
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Go behind the scenes of the iconic Discworld series with this beautiful, illustrated hardback, the perfect gift book for any fantasy fan this holiday season.'It's still magic, even if you know how it's done' SIR TERRY PRATCHETTSir Terry Pratchett was one of the world's...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2024-11-07
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Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for representing and re-thinking literacy itself. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-06
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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-06
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-06
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-05
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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos.In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-05
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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos.In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-05
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Obwohl eines der prominentesten Themen literarischer Texte, fand das Reisen in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit wenig Beachtung. Stärker in den Blick rückte es erst die sozialgeschichtlich orientierte Reiseliteraturforschung der 1980er Jahre, die sich allerdings vor...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-04
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2024-11-01
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In diesem Buch werden Figuren und Figurenkonstellationen in einem Korpus mittelhochdeutscher Artusromane mit computergestützten Methoden, insbesondere der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse, untersucht. Die Analysen konzentrieren sich auf Hartmanns von Aue ‚Erec‘ und ‚Iwein‘...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-31
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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-31
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This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy’s novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and world-systems analyses with a cultural materialist approach, the study offers unparalleled coverage of global links in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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This book offers the first full-length study of Henry James's relationship with, and literary treatment of, New York. It shows how the city, whether observed or reimagined, always remained an essential component of James's identity. New York compelled James to confront...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Trotz der Dominanz des Audiovisuellen in unserer Zeit sind das Bilderbuch und das illustrierte (Kinder-)Buch zu einer ungeahnten künstlerischen Höhe gelangt. Die Kommunikationsmedien aus Bild und Text angemessen zu rezipieren, versteht sich nicht von selbst. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2024-10-29
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Etwa seit der Jahrtausendwende ist ein internationaler und nach wie vor anhaltender Boom von Adaptionen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie und Historie zu verzeichnen. Dieser ist durch eine bemerkenswerte mediale Vielfalt und Vernetzungsfreude gekennzeichnet. Folglich...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-29
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This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity. As a prominent figure in plastic theory,Ghoshexplores Tagore''s views on education, identity politics, environment, and literature...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2024-10-29
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