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Goethe und die Kunst. Zeit seines Lebens begriffGoethe die Auseinandersetzung mit der Bildenden Kunst als wesentliche Komponente seines Erkenntnisinteresses. Der Band stellt Goethes Verhältnis zu den Bildenden Künsten in seiner Bedeutung für sein Leben und Werk dar....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2011-03-11
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This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-01-28
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This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-03
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The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-29
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Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-22
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This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role in Britain's transition to an imperial state.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-30
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The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-11
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Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-04
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This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-16
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This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with an introduction, head notes and annotations that shed new light on the full context and significance of each piece. Familiar works such as "Gulliver's Travels"...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-21
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At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-26
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Henry James Narrative Technique situatesHenry James famous method within an emerging modernist tradition with roots in philosophical debates between rationalism and empiricism. This cogent study considers James works in the context of nineteenth-century thought on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
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Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is a richly historicized account that explores anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and unstable gender roles. James P. Carson argues that the Romantic novel is a form individualizing in its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-26
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Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-14
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A comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Byron, entries range from detailed coverage of the major poems to items on Byron's songs, conversation, interest in boxing, swimming and vampires, and sexual liaisons; also the 'Byronic Hero',...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-31
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In the aftermath of the revolutions in theory and criticism of the last several decades, this book offers a re-reading of the development of the nineteenth-century English novel by exploring the relation of the writer to the reader.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-29
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Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 up to the present time, Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts, asking questions that contribute to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-07
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In this stunning reinterpretation of Shakespeare s works, Jonathan Hart explores key topics such as love, lust, time, culture, and history to unlock the Bard s brilliant fictional worlds. From an in-depth look at the private and public myths of love in the narrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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