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This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many canonical authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-28
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A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett.
After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.
A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett.
After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology.
William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry James and a founder of the study of psychology. But he was also a thinker who sought to work across conventional...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology.
William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry James and a founder of the study of psychology. But he was also a thinker who sought to work across conventional...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.
A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
ePub
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A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.
As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it's possible for...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it's possible for...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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How were understandings of chance, luck, and fortune affected by early capitalist developments such as the global expansion of English trade and colonial exploration? And how could the recognition that fortune wielded a powerful force in the world be squared with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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How were understandings of chance, luck, and fortune affected by early capitalist developments such as the global expansion of English trade and colonial exploration? And how could the recognition that fortune wielded a powerful force in the world be squared with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Vorstellungen von Absenz wirken in der Gegenwart auf breiter Basis – auch in der Literatur. Doch wie sind diese medial vermittelt? Geht man davon aus, dass Absenz-Phänomene sich nicht in einer primordialen Leere ereignen, sondern dass ihnen eher mitVorstellungen vom...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church. The work of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Milton, and Thomas Traherne suggests that the demands of faith are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church. The work of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Milton, and Thomas Traherne suggests that the demands of faith are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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This book explores Turkey’s complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which tasra (the provinces) is constituted in contemporary Turkish cinema and literature. Connoting much more than its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-26
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In diesem Buch wird ein Korpus an Texten der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur zwischen 1999 und 2018 darauf untersucht, mit welchen inhaltlichen Reflexionen und Metaphern und mit welchen erzählerischen und ästhetischen Mitteln das Internet reflektiert und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-25
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Der Wiener Publizist Karl Kraus (1874–1936) war eine zentrale Figur der europäischen Moderne. Sein monumentales Werk umfasst nicht nur Essays, Aphorismen, Gedichte und Dramen, erschienen großteils auf den tausenden Seiten seiner Zeitschrift Die Fackel, sondern auch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-22
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Book 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This book is an integral part of the epic's three-book movement that narrates one of the largest battles in Roman history. It opens with the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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The new edition of the definitive academic companion to Tolkien’s life and literature A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien provides readers with an in-depth examination of the author’s life and works, covering Tolkien’s fiction and mythology, his academic writing, and his...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-07-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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