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This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular “theory of fiction,” especially in relation to the novel. Unlike Forster’s approach to “Aspects of the Novel,” which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-20
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This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-19
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The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another', wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives, hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-07
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The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another', wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives, hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-07
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Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science against the humanities while also demonstrating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-26
Collection :
Palgrave Handbooks of Literature and Science
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Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview of a century-old critical tradition focused on Joyce and music, as well...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-17
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The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-17
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This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Empire in 1960. These works are understood as ‘transportal literatures’ in that they navigate the liminal and layered forms of colonialism which impede...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
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During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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Friederike Mayröcker zählt zu den herausragenden lyrischen Stimmen der Gegenwart. Der vorliegende Band bietet Annäherungen an ihr lyrisches Werk. Entstanden im Laufe von mehr als 70 Schaffensjahren, spiegelt es die Entwicklung einer Einzelgängerin von ihren...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-09
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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written “after the wreck,” they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-19
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Nur wenige deutsche Dichter erfahren eine ähnlich starke Aufmerksamkeit bis in die jüngste Gegenwart wie Friedrich Hölderlin. Das Handbuch, seit vielen Jahren das Standardwerk zur Hölderlin-Forschung, informiert in der Neuauflage detailliert über den aktuellen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-19
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