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Vers und Prosa als gebundene und ungebundene Rede sind Grundprinzipien sprachlicher Gestaltung, die in ihrer Komplementarität bislang noch erstaunlich selten behandelt worden sind. Weit intensiver wurde das Gegensatzpaar Poesie und Prosa bedacht, das spätestens seit dem...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-02-01
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This book approaches the nature of Emily Dickinson from a multi-dimensional perspective. It studies nature in Dickinson’s works from five aspects including historical, pictorial, ecocritical, philosophical and nonhuman perspectives, providing a tentative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This book examines the importance of Classics and classical reception in the poetry, novels, translations, essays, and letters of Richard Aldington (1892-1962). The book has a double focus: first, to demonstrate the ubiquity of Classics in Aldington's writings from...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-30
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People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English Colonies' sprung up, not in the far-reaches of the Empire, but in...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-30
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Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much interested in plots; she works instead by juxtaposition, leaving it up to the reader to feel the vibrations between one situation and another. Nor is she...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-30
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Rabindranath Tagore and Music in the Age of Nationalism explores the political, social, cultural, and emotional history of Bengal, focusing on the development of modern Bengali subjectivity. The unifying theme isRabindranath Tagore's creative and critical progress,...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-28
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This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that addresses a wide variety of questions, including the nature of Euripidean tragedy. In his Introduction and across several discussions in the commentary,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in writings by female mystics including Angela of Foligno, Catherine of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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Metaphor is of vital concern to the discipline of literary studies as well as the field of animal studies. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s philosophy and Paul Ricœur’s tropology, this book studies the spectrality of metaphor in relation to animal figures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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Literatursoziologische Fragen sind seit einiger Zeit wieder ins Blickfeld der germanistischen Forschung gerückt, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen, ökonomischen und technologischen Entwicklungen, die die Literaturbranche grundlegend verändern. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-19
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Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work at large. Heaney's later life was a time...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-18
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F.O. Matthiessen’s ''American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman'' is a seminal and important work of literary criticism. It analyzes the explosive cultural output of 1850–1855, focusing on how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2026-04-14
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C'è una notte fitta, "una densa notte di tenebre", che avvolge le origini dell'umanità. Per secoli, filosofi e storici hanno tentato di illuminarla con la luce della ragione astratta, fallendo. Poi, agli albori del Settecento, un uomo solo, Giambattista Vico, fece una...
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Cactus
Parution :
2026-03-13
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Scritti tra il 1945 e il 1947, i ventisette brevi dialoghi di questo libro non sono una semplice rivisitazione colta dei miti greci. Sulla scia degli studi antropologici e della psicanalisi, Pavese trasforma figure come Edipo, Achille, Orfeo e Prometeo in interlocutori...
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Cactus
Parution :
2026-03-02
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the explosive founding text of modern feminism. In an era that dismissed women as merely beautiful ornaments for the pleasure of men, Mary Wollstonecraft launched a furious and brilliant assault on the very pillars of a...
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Cactus
Parution :
2026-02-22
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich Christian Krachts Ästhetik unter zwei Hauptaspekten: Zum einen hinsichtlich bisweilen irritierend verdrehter Aktualisierungen jener Selbstbezüglichkeit und Vorbehaltlichkeit, die seit Kant als ein zentraler Modus des Ästhetischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-26
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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-06
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This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
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Abacus
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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