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This book introduces the origin and development of Chinese fiction before late Qing dynasty. It covers a broad range of topics in traditional Chinese fiction studies including novels written in classical and vernacular Chinese, structure and narrative of fiction...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. The encounter with his works has had profound...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-27
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This book identifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir, novel, and essay, and explores the futures they envision for migrants and their surrounding societies. The primary material ranges from personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-24
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As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science. Tom Rutter shows, however, that in his plays and poetry Shakespeare...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-23
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Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim about the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and identity that cross genres. The volume uncovers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-21
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In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sich Nicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie sich auf Thomas Mann, der Japans...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-21
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An inspiring and delightful illustrated collection of quotations from a diverse range of our most beloved children's books that will help teach all of us how to live in the world today, perfect for gift season and for readers of books like The Boy, The Mole, The...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2024-08-20
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A systematic etymological approach to understanding the Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes of "med-speak" Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific Terminologies explains the Greek and Latin origins of the roots, prefixes, and suffixes of terms used in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-19
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One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-19
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This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute pandemic, and breakthroughs in bioengineering practices,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-08
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*The perfect Valentine's or Galentine's gift for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros and Raven Kennedy* Delicious drinks with a slow burnWith 60 toe-curling tipples and scrumptious spritzes inspired by your favourite romantic stories, realms and tropes, A Coupe of...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2024-08-08
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A fascinating and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2024-08-08
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Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-03
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Einerseits gemahnt das Fragment an die Verletzlichkeit des menschlichen Seins und die Vergänglichkeit materieller Dinge, andererseits verweist es auf die Möglichkeit der Erneuerung und animiert wie bei einer Spurensuche zum Forschen nach der Ergänzung. In der Kinder-...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-02
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Shakespeare verzichtet in seinen Werken auf theoretische Auseinandersetzungen. Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit menschlichen Spannungen, Krisen, emotionalen Konflikten sowie mit menschlichen Grausamkeiten und Machtbegier, um letztlich aus dem Widerspiel dieser...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-02
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The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader studies and studies of nature.The volume addresses encounters with, responses to and representations of a broad variety of phenomena: celestial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-31
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Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller zählen zu den wichtigsten Dramenautoren der Weimarer Republik. Politisch gab es zu Lebzeiten zahlreiche Berührungspunkte zwischen beiden, und ebenso finden sich hinsichtlich ihres ästhetisch avancierten Anspruchs mit experimentellen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-30
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