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Irish music holds pride of place among the cultural attributes defining Ireland, and its role in shaping national identity is undisputed. To question these certainties which tend to convey a restrictive notion of a so-calledIrish music, the firstIrish music studies...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
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2016-05-29
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Symposia
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The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist.The essays which explore this hidden process of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-12
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-21
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When Toby Little was five years old, he decided to write to someone in every country in the world.With the help of his mum, Toby started handwriting and posting letters to everyone from research scientists in Antarctica to game-keepers in Chad and even the Pope. Not...
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Penguin
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2016-03-24
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'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply. What he finds is that the ground has shifted. With Lionel Trilling at...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-26
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Der vorliegende Band umfasst fünfzehn Arbeiten des Aachener Romanisten Hans Felten. Mit unterschiedlichen Fragestellungen und Methoden betrachtet er die italienische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Das Spektrum reicht von der klassischen geistes- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-11
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The Octavia is the only surviving historical drama from ancient Rome. With a plot rich in sex, dynastic intrigue, riots, and murder, the play's characters include the philosopher Seneca, the emperor Nero, the ghost of his murdered mother, his wife Octavia, and his...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-03
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'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. InFrom the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2015-11-18
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
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There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and at Passchendaele. On the other hand, there are those who view Haig...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-05
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'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso...
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-11-03
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A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila, including Marilynne Robinson's conversation with President Barack Obama. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' BARACK...
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Virago
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2015-10-27
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Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives....
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2015-10-27
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'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?'
At the height of his career, around the time he was working on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?'
At the height of his career, around the time he was working on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. This volume explores that rich interaction. Son of Classics...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-01
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The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, and includes...
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-10-01
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