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Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-18
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Utopian literature provides a compelling vision of epistemological and moral clarity: a dream of harmony and justice. But in an age of surveillance, utopia is also the nightmare of a perfectly controlled, sealed and monitored world that leaves no room for ambivalence or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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Comparative literary studies face new challenges today in a world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field is restricted by conventional notions of comparativism born in the era of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities. Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-15
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-13
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This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-12
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William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal ofWilliam Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-12
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Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-08
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Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-08-07
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Hass ist ein theoretisch-psychologisch und kulturwissenschaftlich relevantes Thema, das auch im Medium Literatur zum Ausdruck kommt. Die Arbeit hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, diverse Manifestationen des Hasses am Beispiel ausgewählter Werke zu untersuchen. Die Analysen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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In der neutestamentlichen Forschung hat die allgemein wahrgenommene Uneinheitlichkeit des Textes des Johannesprologs zu der communis opinio geführt, dass er aus der Überarbeitung eines vorgegebenen – ansonsten unbekannten – «Logos-Hymnus» entstanden sein müsse. Von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-08-06
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Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt with, interrogated...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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This study deals with the aesthetic manifestations of one of the world’s most fiercely iconophobic and anti-aesthetic religious cultures: Calvinism. It establishes the category of the Calvinesque as an aesthetic of extreme violence against the human body. In close...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-05
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Literature and Politics in the 1620s argues that literature during this decade was inextricably linked to politics, whether oppositional or authoritarian. A wide range of texts are analyzed, from Shakespeare's First Folio to Middleton's A Game At Chess, from romances...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-31
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Implementing a never-before-seen approach to sea literature, American Sea Literature: Seascapes, Beach Narratives, and Underwater Explorations explores the role of American maritime activities and their cultural representations in literature. Differentiating between the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-07-31
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Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-31
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