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In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic...
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Polity
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2013-06-26
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This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-25
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This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-06-25
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Why does Catholicism have such an imaginative hold on Shakespearean drama, even though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice? Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions contends that the answers to this question are theatrical rather than strictly theological. Avoiding...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-20
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This volume is a critical companion to the works of Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Müller (1953-) is a Romanian-German novelist, essayist and producer of collages whose work has been compared with that of W.G. Sebald and Franz Kafka. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-20
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This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-13
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What does it mean for a woman to write an elegy, ode, epic, or blazon in the seventeenth century? How does their reading affect women's use of particular poetic forms and what can the physical appearance of a poem, in print and manuscript, reveal about how that poem in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-13
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Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-13
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Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account ofEmily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-12
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Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-12
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The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-12
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The contributions in this volume shed light on lived multilingualism around the globe. A small, but still representative selection of the multitude of migrant experiences, all studies share the intertwining of geographical mobility and non-mainstream linguistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-12
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The first book-length study to trace the origins of the essay to the conte, Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form puts the reader in touch with how unstable times and exceptional artistic insights transform one genre to create a new artistic form.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-11
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This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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This is an introductory study of the work of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had an extensive impact on the new French feminist theoretical movement.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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«Man kann gehen, wohin man will, man kommt nie als der zurück, der man einmal war.» Das vorangestellte Zitat aus dem 1990 veröffentlichten Roman Die Klangprobe von Siegfried Lenz weist bereits indirekt auf das Thema der Untersuchung hin: Im Vordergrund der Arbeit stehen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-06
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A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-06
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-06
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Intertextuelle Literatur liefert subversive und polyphone Zustandsbeschreibungen der Welt. Sie ist Gedächtnisort der Kultur, schreibt sich in diese ein und stiftet Identität.Intertextuelle Literatur wird damit zur Verwirklichung des Goetheschen Konzeptes von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-06
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