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This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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This book explores the remarkable diaries and memoirs of Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) and Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829), both of whom lived in Ireland. Working on the premise that their identities are literary constructions, the author investigates the cultural and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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The title of this volume illustrates the significance of margins and the instability of demarcation in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro.The author approaches Ishiguro’s writings as a corpus rather than separate units, examining the novels to illuminate their generic,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Describing the Irish as ‘female’ and ‘bestial’ is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other ‘savages’ has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This is the first comprehensive study of the Irish writers of the Victorian age, some of them still remembered, most of them now forgotten. Their work was often directed to a British as well as an Irish reading audience and was therefore disparaged in the era of W.B....
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OUP Oxford
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2011-01-13
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Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-11
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From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to Theokritos' nymphs, love between goddesses and mortal men provides the ancient Greeks with a way of articulating both the genealogical and cultic connection to their gods and to...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-01-10
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Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience?...
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Quercus
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2011-01-06
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-04
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-01-04
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Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-03
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For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-03
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Von Teresa de Ávila über Cervantes bis Zafón. Die Literaturgeschichte entwirft ein lebendiges Bild der kastilischen Literatur vom maurisch-christlich-jüdischen Zusammenleben bis heute. Sie lässt ganze Epochen Revue passieren, geht aber auch auf einzelne Texte und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2011-01-01
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A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-28
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Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career.The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays. It contains pieces on Cervantes,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-23
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In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’ Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-23
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Welches Bild vom Autor Walther von der Vogelweide hatte sein mittelalterliches Publikum? Dieser Frage geht die Untersuchung ausgehend von den in der Kleinen Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (A) überlieferten Liedern und Spruchtönen nach und arbeitet das Profil des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Politik und Literatur bilden die zentralen Aspekte im Leben und Werk des Reporters und Schriftstellers Egon Erwin Kisch. In keinem anderen seiner Werke lassen sich die Verbindung dieser beiden Aspekte, seine Doppelrolle als politischer Aktivist und als Literat sowie die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging overview of twentieth-century American ?ction. Featured writers range from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-21
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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Suizidgeschichten einzuleiten ist wahrscheinlich sinnlos. Nur in medias res, unter dem vollen Gewicht der Tat und vielleicht im Nachhinein, kann man sie am besten verstehen. Dieser Essay enthält biographische Angaben zu 423 Schriftstellern und Schriftstellerinnen, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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