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Der vorliegende Band erkundet die deutsche Dante-Rezeption in der Literatur und den Künsten im 20. Jahrhundert. Er dokumentiert anhand von verschiedenartigen Beispielen die Vielfalt der von der Divina Commedia ausgehenden künstlerischen Anregungen in Moderne und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-04
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This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary. Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis Brings together the most up-to-date international...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Shakespeare's Nature offers the first sustained account of the impact of the language and practice of husbandry onShakespeare's work. It shows how the early modern discourse of cultivation changes attitude to the natural world, and traces the interrelationships between...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-30
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This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Am 4. Oktober 1914 wurde der von 93 führenden Repräsentanten der deutschen Kunst und Wissenschaft unterzeichnete Aufruf «An die Kulturwelt!» veröffentlicht. Er ist sogleich ein Schlüsseldokument geworden, das bis heute jede Untersuchung des «Kriegs der Geister» im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind in England. Gabriele Stein describes this pioneering work, exploring its inner structure and workings, its impact on contemporary scholarship, and its later influence.
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-29
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Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary and contradictory ways. This book explores the complex desires involved in epistolary discoveries of 'hidden' Victorians, offering new insight...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-24
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This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-22
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775-1817) can be said to be the most widely studied author in the history of English literature. But unlike Shakespeare, her language has received little scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her letters....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-22
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By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-22
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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Die Ereignisse nach dem 11. September 2001 und die jüngsten gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche im Nahen Osten, der Irak-Krieg, der Bürgerkrieg in Syrien, der fortdauernde Konflikt in Afghanistan, aber auch die interkulturellen Probleme innerhalb Deutschlands machen deutlich,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-22
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The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowicz’s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context.The research extends to English and American literary traditions in order to account for the ways the writer’s version of existentialism is interpreted in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-22
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Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-21
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Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-20
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-16
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Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-16
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Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, André Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-01-13
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Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-13
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