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Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. Explores the reasons why the traditional...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-05-14
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important developments in modern French poetry: from the post-Commune climate that...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-05-14
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Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art. They take us from birth to...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-05-14
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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-06
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In diesem Buch wird erstmals der werkübergreifende Walpurgisnacht-Komplex von Johann Wolfgang Goethe in seinem literarhistorischen, poetologischen und ideengeschichtlichen Gesamtzusammenhang erschlossen. Dreimal hat sich Goethe im Laufe seines Lebens mit der Sage vom...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Dieses Buch wurde mit dem Ludger-Schiffler Preis für Fremdsprachendidaktik 2015 ausgezeichnet. Das Buch behandelt mit interkultureller Kompetenzentwicklung ein Thema aus der aktuellen Curricularentwicklung und deren Kompetenz- und Outputorientierung. Die Autorin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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The origins of the Spanish novel date back to the early picaresque novels and Don Quixote, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the history of the genre in Spain presents the reader with such iconic works as Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta, Clarín's La...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-30
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Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic and political...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-04-30
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem amerikanischen Dichter Ezra Pound, einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Seine epochalen Theorien des Imagismus und Vortizismus sind die Apizes der Ismen des fin de siècle; seine dichterischen Prinzipien und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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Im Buch wird die finanzielle Situation Ciceros untersucht, die anhand seines Briefwechsels detailliert nachverfolgt werden kann. Der berühmte Anwalt, Politiker und Literat kämpfte schließlich zeitlebens mit finanziellen Problemen. Diese werden dargelegt, indem die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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South African theatre, drama, and performance is a vibrant and rapidly developing area of contemporary theatre studies. In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world’s most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2015-04-30
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During the English Restoration, London unlicensed health carers printed handbills as the easiest way to advertise their medical practices. In order to increase our awareness of irregular medical practitioners as a cultural phenomenon and examine their language, two...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture – the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-28
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The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-28
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-24
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Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-24
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