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"This excellent volume—the first book-length study in English on Despentes’s writing—is rich, timely and insightful. Schaal’s rigorous analysis contextualises Despentes’s work carefully in relation to contemporary writing and thought, highlighting its intersections with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-02-13
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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-12
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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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2026-02-11
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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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2026-02-11
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This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical, dialogical, and sustainable approaches to developing children’s literature in university classrooms. Its core pillars—environmental...
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Springer
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2026-02-10
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This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the...
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Springer
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2026-02-08
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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
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies
Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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'The enfranchised quill, that has plodded all the morning among the cart-rucks of figures and cyphers, frisks and curvets so at its ease over the flowery carpet-ground of a midnight dissertation.'
Charles Lamb was employed full-time as a clerk in the City of London...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-07
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Questo primo di tre volumi di Scritti 1975-2025 di Franco Marucci ripresenta saggi interpretativi estratti dalla sua Storia della letteratura inglese, uscita dal 2003 al 2018 con innovativi criteri manualistici e ladozione di aggiornati strumenti critici. Il punto di...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-02-06
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Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to consider the life of utopian imagining within the frame of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-06
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