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This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-27
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Dieses Buch bietet die erste literatur- und medientheoretisch fundierte Studie zu Blickbewegungen im Bilderbuch. Es begegnet zwei Forschungsdesideraten: Der empirischen Untersuchung geht eine umfassende theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit der Räumlichkeit und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-25
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This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-25
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This book compares the interrelationship of Irish writer James Joyce's literary works and specific Nordic literature in translation, employing an onomastic and etymological framework. It elucidates the importance of these frequent Scandinavian associations and how they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-22
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Ferdinand von Schirach war lange Strafverteidiger, bevor er mit dem Erzählband Verbrechen einen sensationellen Debüterfolg feierte. Seither hat er ein umfangreiches und vielfältiges literarisches Werk veröffentlicht. Mit über 10 Millionen verkauften Büchern und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-22
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Mid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-22
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This book presents a systematic elaboration on Chinese literature and its criticism, with special reference to introducing the predominant role of idea-image. The author holds that image takes on a central position in Chinese literature. Chinese literature is composed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-20
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In jüngster Zeit ist ein Boom nicht nur der Gedichte, sondern auch der Selbstaussagen und Statements deutschsprachiger Lyriker und Lyrikerinnen festzustellen. Die Untersuchung widmet sich mit Oskar Pastior, Oswald Egger sowie Ann Cotten drei avancierten und poetologisch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-20
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The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet.The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-19
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) war in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts die zentrale Figur der deutschen Poesie. Er revolutionierte Theorie und Praxis des Verses, wertete die Position von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern im Literaturbetrieb auf, schrieb...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-19
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Aufgrund der anhaltenden Fluchtbewegungen fordert Aleida Assmann zur Umstrukturierung national ausgerichteter Erinnerungskulturen auf, damit Flüchtlinge mehr an Erinnerungsprozessen partizipieren können. Diese Forderung greift die Studie am Beispiel der Untersuchung der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-19
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Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-19
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'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2024-07-18
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Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism explores how American Romanticism developed in response to pervasive conflicts over democracy's moral dimensions in the early republic and antebellum eras. By recovering the long-under-examined tradition of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book offers an integrated study of the English princess and Castilian queen Catherine of Lancaster (1373–1418), drawing on available archival, architectural, and poetic sources in England and Spain. Catherine’s mother, Queen of Castile in exile, and father, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century.This book is the first English-language monograph on this key figure...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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In der 4. Auflage ist das Buch umfassend neu konzipiert worden. Neben den Kapiteln von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne, die als Klassiker in der Amerikanistik gelten und nur wenig verändert beibehalten werden, sind alle anderen Kapitel entweder neu geschrieben oder...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-15
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Walter Pater and Persons investigates the vital concept of the Person in the work ofWalter Pater, a major influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Stephen Cheeke explores the intersections of the person, persona, and personality in Pater's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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