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An elegant and thorough examination of the riches of Sangam poetryIn this acclaimed comparative study, K. Kailasapathy, the celebrated Sri Lankan academic and critic, introduces and interprets ancient Tamil poems and examines the stylistic heritage, themes and motifs...
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Hachette India
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2023-07-19
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This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-19
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Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century.
Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-18
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-17
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Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist ohne das Migrationsphänomen kaum zu denken, das an seiner Aktualität bis heute nichts verloren hat. Rasante Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Technologie, Kommunikation und Transport in den 1990er Jahren fu¨hren zu sozialen, kulturellen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2023-07-14
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British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-14
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A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and...
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Penguin
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2023-07-13
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Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-13
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Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of his most celebrated plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1622), The Lovers' Melancholy (1628), and The Broken Heart (1629), as...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-13
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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People's War" to the "People's Peace," this book shows that...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-12
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Die Festschrift zu Ehren von Gerd Hentschel vereinigt slawistische und weitere Studienaus der Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Dem wissenschaftlichen Elandes Jubilars entsprechend vielfältig ist das Spektrum an systemlinguistischen,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-07-12
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Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten dreizehn Beiträge untersuchen interkonfessionelle Aushandlungsprozesse auf Reisen. Am Beispiel der Italienreisen von Adligen aus dem Alten Reich, aber auch von italienischen Adligen, die den deutschen Sprachraum besuchen, wird die...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-07-12
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This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-07-12
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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.
Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-11
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O ser humano sempre foi fascinado pela temporalidade e criou ficções sobre o tempo que lhe permitiram refletir sobre seu presente, seu passado ou imaginar o futuro. No mundo lusófono, em contextos históricos marcados pela colonialidade, violência ou trauma, a ficção...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-07-10
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The contributions to this volume are devoted to Christian Kracht's aesthetics under two main aspects: On the one hand, with regard to sometimes irritatingly twisted actualizations of that self-reference and reservation which, since Kant, is to be evaluated as a central...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-07-07
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The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century and the cultural studies of the 20th century - must reposition themselves in the 21st century.The contributions address...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-07-07
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WINNER of the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry Collection'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection. It's poetry to intoxicate. Just sublime.' Juno Dawson 'Every page of...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-07-06
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-06
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