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The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-23
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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-10-22
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This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-21
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A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable, and that every character can be seen as being both endorsed and critiqued by the text. This is manifested especially in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-21
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This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of theU.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the connection between the genderedness ofmaterial practice and White masculinity concepts in the U.S.-American mainstream.The examination of the construct...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-18
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Mit seinem Geschichtsromanzyklus "Amazonas", dessen Handlung eine Zeitspanne von rund Vierjahrhunderten umfasst – von den Ereignissen rund um die Eroberung Südamerikas im 16. Jahrhundert bis hin zu der Zeit des pränationalsozialistischen Deutschlands –, führt...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-17
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Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery, allusion, rhythm and style, the Bible is central to how poetry has both shaped and been shaped by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Das Werk Georg Trakls (1887-1914) ist ebenso schmal wie bedeutend. Er gilt als Klassiker der Moderne und seine Gedichte gehören zum Kanon auch in Universität und Schule. Gleichwohl hat die Hermetik seiner Dichtung zu vielen offenen Forschungsfragen geführt.Das Handbuch...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-16
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This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention is devoted to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-14
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This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad’s works, a pattern emerges where Western space is associated with sound and non-Western space is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-12
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Nicht nur die Zeit des Menschen, auch die Eigenzeiten der Literatur stehen heute in einem vielschichtigen Spannungsverhältnis zur Zeit der Natur. Doch welche Mittel besitzt die Literatur, um die menschliche Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit für die Zeiten anderer Lebewesen oder gar...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-12
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This is the first study to examine the intersections of Indigenous scholarship, theories of New Materialism and Native American fiction regarding the Anthropocene future. The book discusses selected speculative fiction novels by North American Indigenous female writers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-11
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This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict and confront Ireland’s colonial situation in the nineteenth century.This study provides an innovative approach by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-09
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This book explores the tension between the conservatism and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard Kipling’s fiction. It shows how Kipling the conservative thinker explores problematic aspects of Empire and the English class-system, both because...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-09
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This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges. It sheds a new light on “May Fourth” and on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-06
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This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-05
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A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry' Jorie Graham'Full of delicate and muscular...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-10-05
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AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new...
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Corsair
Parution :
2023-10-05
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-05
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-05
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