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This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges.The legal thriller typically uses court trials...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-10
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This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result of two decades of research during which 232 surviving copies of this immeasurably important book were located a remarkable 72 more than were recorded in the previous census over a century ago and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Die russischsprachige Satire wird häufig in den Rang einer Schattenliteraturform gedrängt. Dennoch kann sie die Funktion ausüben, die der Satire gemeinhin zugeschrieben wird: auf aggressive Art Missstände in einer Gesellschaft zu kritisieren.
Dieser Band enthält die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form.
The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form.
The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-08
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise The Winter's Tale throughout the course.This Study and Revise...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-11-07
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Zur jüngsten Heine-Forschung. Der 53. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung Heinrich Heines, unter anderem Analysen seiner Nordsee -Gedichte, und zu Ludwig Marcuses Heine-Bild. Außerdem: bisher unbekannte Briefe von...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-11-07
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This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to “the responsible poet.” Focusing on Keats’s sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-07
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This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-05
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Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness. He refused to relinquish this attachment even as corruption and injustice gradually led him to turn against the English government. In a long life, Swift proved a reluctant rebel, though one...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Diversen historischen Romanen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts sind unterschiedliche Geschichtskonzepte inhärent, die sich mit den geschichtsphilosophischen Ideen seit der Spätaufklärung konstruktiv auseinandersetzen und diese produktiv weiterentwickeln. Die Autorin zeigt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-02
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Entfremdung erscheint im Gesamtwerk der DDR-Autorin Christa Wolf als ein wichtiges und ständig wiederkehrendes Thema. Die Christa Wolf-Forschung hat jedoch die zentrale Bedeutung derEntfremdung für Leben und Werk der Autorin bislang wenig beachtet. Diese Studie geht der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-02
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Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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