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Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-02
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Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-02
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This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-02
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The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on issues of genre,...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-01
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In The Unsettlement of America, Anna Brickhouse explores the fascinating career and ambivalent narrative legacy of Paquiquineo, a largely forgotten Native translator of the early modern Atlantic world. Encountered by Spanish explorers in 1561 near the future site of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-01
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Pringle presents his selections in chronological order and includes a synopsis of the story, a discussion of the author's overall contribution to fantasy literature, critical commentary on the title's significance, and a brief publishing history. An introductory essay...
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Gateway
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2014-09-30
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Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by the author -...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-09-30
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This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-29
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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-26
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Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism – the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime – this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-25
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The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice.The years 1921-1939...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice.The years 1921-1939...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in EnglishRomantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-23
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In dieser Studie werden jene Personen der Öffentlichkeit in Erinnerung gebracht, die die Kriminalität des staatlich institutionalisierten Nationalsozialismus innerhalb der deutschen Volksgruppen in Rumänien, Ungarn und dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien unterstützten und die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Diese Arbeit untersucht die Leitmotive des literarischen Schaffens SAIDs – Politik, Liebe, Religion – und zwar sowohl in den lyrischen Texten als auch in den Prosaschriften. Der aus dem Iran stammende Autor betrachtet die deutsche Sprache als das ihm angemessene Mittel,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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The 150th anniversary of Ireland’s Great Famine in the 1990s generated a significant increase in scholarship on the history of the crisis and its social and cultural aftermath. Two decades later, interest in the Irish Famine – both scholarly and popular – has soared...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Crime Scenes: ModernCrime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-23
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Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-22
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Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-18
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'Rather jolly and very helpful’ The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader alike. ...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-09-18
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