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This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century.This new 2nd edition has been revised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-04
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Zur jüngsten Kleist-Forschung: Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2011, u. a. mit der Rede der Preisträgerin Sibylle Lewitscharoff. Es beinhaltet die Beiträge der Tagungen "Adel und Autorschaft", "Ökonomie des Opfers" und "Vertrauen im Werk...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-04
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Das Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Gründung der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft im Jahr 1960, die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2010, die internationale Tagung Kleist/Politik 2010 in Berlin sowie die Eröffnung der Ausstellung Kleist: Krise und Experiment . Beiträge und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-03
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Die Verarbeitung der antiken Mythologie - und z.T. auch der jüdisch-christlichen und der germanischen - in Heinrich Heines Werk ist Thema dieser Studie, die aufgrund ihrer Materialfülle und Gliederung auch als Handbuch und Nachschlagewerk benutzt werden kann.
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-02
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This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-28
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This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-26
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Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings ofSarah Waters’s fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent debates on women and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-26
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Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering. Abigail L. Palko argues that Irish and Caribbean literary representations of non-normative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-25
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Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-21
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Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-15
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No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-14
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-14
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book brings forth new critical perspectives from some of the most notable scholars in Brazilian literature and history on one of the great writers and cultural minds of nineteenth-century Latin America. Machado de Assis’s innovative writing style and impactful...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-24
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Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than interpretation and representation. Although Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman were...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-24
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This book uncovers a new genre of ‘post-Agreement literature’, consisting of a body of texts – fiction, poetry and drama – by Northern Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles but published their work in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. In an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-23
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This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-10
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This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-06-09
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This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-06-09
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Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-07
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