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What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-05-23
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The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends.The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-23
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Shakespeares Karriere auf deutschen Bühnen begann 1776 in Hamburg mit einer Aufführung des Hamlet. Die Bearbeitung des Stücks stammte von Friedrich Ludwig Schröder – Schauspieler, Dramatiker, Regisseur und Direktor des Hamburger Theaters. Er schrieb damit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-23
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Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2022-05-23
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In der frühen Neuzeit beschäftigen sich zahlreiche Texte mit Berufen, indem sie das jeweils erforderliche Wissen, einzelne Aufgabenfelder, Zweck, Ursprung und Prestige darstellen. Humanistisch ist der Argumentationsgang, insofern er meist vom Menschen ausgeht. Prägend...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-16
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This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-16
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Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its charm, wit, vigour,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-05-16
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Genauso lange, wie es die Buchpreisbindung in Deutschland gibt, ist sie umstritten. Während Kritiker sie insbesondere aus ökonomischen Erwägungen anzweifeln und gelegentlich als „gesetzliches Zwangskartell“ kritisieren, sind es die Befürworter mit dem Börsenverein des...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-13
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Anhand von Werken von Ludwig Ganghofer, Hermann Löns, Felix Salten, Waldemar Bonsels und Otto Alscher, die zwischen 1900 und 1943 erschienen sind und in denen die Jagd zentral ist, widmet sich dieser Band der Rolle und der Darstellung von Emotionen in den Beziehungen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-12
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"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney’s achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poetry at different stages of his career, including his appointments in Berkeley and Harvard. Beginning with an examination...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-09
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Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
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A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book
C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-06
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This book explores the connections that José Joaquín de Mora (1783–1864)established with Britain, where he was exiled from 1823 to 1826 and was toreturn as diplomat in the following decades. His admiration for the Britishmaterialised in a series of cultural transfers...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-06
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On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-05
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On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-05
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In Zeiten zunehmender Bedrohungen für das aktuell gelebte Europa stellt dieser Band mit Beiträgen internationaler Forscher(Innen) aus multidisziplinärer Perspektive literarische Konzepte für eine europäische Idee vor. Kontinuitätslinien und Brüche zwischen stark...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-05
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