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Gedicht-, Balladen- und Lieder-Sammlungen erreichen seit der Barock-Zeit interessierte Lesergruppen fast aller Altersstufen. Die Musen-Almanache des späten 18. Jahrhunderts und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts erschienen in hohen Auflagen und fanden große...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout his academic career, responded to the challenges of extracting deep philosophical significance and previously unnoticed implications from this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a “South-South” comparison of the works of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Congolese author Sony Labou Tansi. It argues that the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys. Jakobsson examines minor characters and their role, as well...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional playhouses read in the light of modern theories of the dramatic and postdramatic theatres. Designed to speak to scholars and students in both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry investigates the relationship between poetry and magic in the context of contemporary poetics. It traces the history of ‘magical poetics’ and the poetry of the occult to the present, in order to ask, in the context of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediation of our perception of the world. In light of deepening environmental, political, and humanitarian crises, the role of transmedia storytelling in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different traditions and values,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness. Accused by their critics of lowness and inconsequentiality, these works act as literary mediations of a lower middle-class urban...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition during and after his lifetime, with a particular focus on his influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Celtic Modernist writers....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Presents a personal and thematic journey through English literature from Chaucer to the present Chapter and Verse: A Reader's History of English Literature offers a compelling reimagining of literary history—one that places the reader's experience at the heart of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-12-24
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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'
This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-24
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In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how Ando Shoeki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chinese and Japanese traditions of animal description, could give a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-19
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The Holocaust, one of history’s darkest chapters, not only annihilated millions but also shattered the human conscience. Amidst this devastation, women bore unique and often overlooked forms of suffering—subjected to forced deportation, sexual violence, and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-18
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A man murdered his wife in 1903 Milan. By analysing how this case was represented and by examining the works of scientists and jurists across centuries, this book seeks to explore how the society of early twentieth-century Italy envisioned the relationship between men...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-12-17
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The Holocaust was a pan-continental event with a global impact: the evolution of its memory is, similarly, both pan-European and globally wider. This collection, stemming from a discipline-leading international project, explores the growth and change of Holocaust...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-12-16
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The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major series that charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries of the late twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a history of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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‘A true Caribbeanist, James Arnold has long been a vital critical presence. These essays bear testimony to a remarkable career and to the hallmarks of Arnold’s scholarship: its extraordinary erudition; and the subtle but determined anticolonialism that motivates the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-15
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-09
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