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Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-03
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This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-03
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This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-02
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Irish women flourished in the publishing world at the turn of the twentieth century, and a number of the most popular and prolific of these authors chose to live and work in Britain. As expatriates, these women occupied a complex cultural space between Ireland and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-02
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While the literature of the ancient Near East portrays legendary heroes, this is not the case with the biblical narrative, which portrays the patriarchs and matriarchs as fallible human beings. Their story is a multigenerational one of family and the dynamics that exist...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-02
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The Long 1980s could be summed up handily in the annals of U.S. cultural history with the enduring markers of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Oliver Stone's film Wall Street, and Dire Straits's hit single "Money for Nothing." Despite their vast differences, each serves to...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-01
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This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female performance, display and desire through her deployment of a culturally and symbolically charged accessory: the muff.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-11-28
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Designed to take you from the moment you first put pen to paper to the point at which you are ready to start contacting publishers (or uploading an ebook file), this is the most important book on writing children's books you'll ever read. It introduces you to the craft...
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Teach Yourself
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2014-11-28
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LEARN HOW TO WRITE ROMANTIC FICTION WHICH TAKES THE BREATH AWAY.Do you want to capture the share of the fastest growing market in fiction?Do you have a compelling vision for a passionate love story? Masterclass: Write Romantic Fiction is designed for anyone who wants to...
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Teach Yourself
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2014-11-28
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Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-27
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This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativity studies, psychology, and engineering. The contributions include introductions to ubiquitous music research, featuring...
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Springer
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2014-11-27
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Cleanness, both in the sense of a neoclassical stylistic purity and of an individual moral and political probity, was centrally important to Walter Savage Landor's writing, both in his prose and poetry. At the same time, this commitment to purity was contaminated in a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Historians and literary scholars tend to agree that British intellectual culture underwent a fundamental transformation between 1770 and 1845. Yet they are unusually divided about the nature of that transformation and whether it is best understood as an epistemic...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-27
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Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic rhetoric. Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the role of poetry and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Untersuchung von Ortsumbenennungen auf dem Territorium der russischen Teilrepublik der Sowjetunion (RSFSR). Welche Entscheidungswege gab es? Nach welchen Kriterien wurden die Namen gewählt? Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt auf dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Artists, scientists and the wider public of the Victorian era all seem to have shared a common interest in the myth of the Briar Rose and its contemporary implications, from the Pre-Raphaelites and late Victorian aesthetes to the fascinated crowds who visited Ellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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The author addresses key questions of foreign language teaching: How does foreign language learning take place? What is the mechanism of foreign language use and learning? What are the sources of our understanding of these processes? What significance does our...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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This Festschrift honours the dedicated book historian and medievalist Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser. Her wide-ranging scholarly expertise has encouraged and influenced many adepts of the book. The essays in this volume reflect the variety of her interests: The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Das Gesamtwerk der fast vergessenen Schriftstellerin Ruth Landshoff-Yorck (1904–1966) steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie. Landshoffs Zitat «I am rediscovered every year, but like Persephone I always return underground» ist dabei wegweisend für die hier vorgestellten und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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