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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
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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
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2009-11-23
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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...
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J.B. Metzler
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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
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2026-01-18
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A year of firsts, feats, and fortitudes. All in one remarkable year - in 2024-25, India clinched its maiden ICC Women's Cricket World Cup win; the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in Paschim Bardhaman District, West Bengal, rolled out 700 locomotives; the nation...
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Hachette India
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2026-01-15
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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
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2026-01-11
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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'
This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-07
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This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the field of Shakespeare studies in recent years while simultaneously highlighting the contributions of Hugh Grady to that intellectual endeavour. The book is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-05
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-04
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-04
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This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity. By covering work by authors such as Lu Xun, Yuan Shu, Zhou Libo, Bing Xin, Ding Lin, Guo Xiaochuan, Ye...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-02
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This landmark volume offers a bold response from the East to the Western classic The Golden Bough, bringing Chinese perspectives into the global conversation on comparative mythology.
Through a close examination of the culturally distinctive motif of the “Jade...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Erinnern stiftet Identität, sowohl für Einzelne als auch für Gruppen und Kulturen, denn es stellt über eine gemeinsam geteilte Vergangenheit Verbindungen und Verbindlichkeiten her. DochErinnern beruht auf subjektiver Wahrnehmung und ist – wie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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In diesem Buch wird die Hypothese untersucht, wonach intertextuelle Referenzen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur durch bedeutende japanische Schriftsteller und Filmschaffende – insbesondere auf Thomas Mann und Franz Kafka bei Yukio Mishima, Morio Kita, Kenzaburo Oe,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Elias Canetti (1905–1994) und Veza Canetti (1897–1963) arbeiten seit den frühen 1930er Jahren in einer gemeinsamen ›Schreibwerkstatt‹. Während der spätere Nobelpreisträger noch den Roman Die Blendung (1936) verfasst,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines. From his social journalism in the early...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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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
Parution :
2026-01-01
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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, now printed for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Gedicht-, Balladen- und Lieder-Sammlungen erreichen seit der Barock-Zeit interessierte Lesergruppen fast aller Altersstufen. Die Musen-Almanache des späten 18. Jahrhunderts und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts erschienen in hohen Auflagen und fanden große...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout his academic career, responded to the challenges of extracting deep philosophical significance and previously unnoticed implications from this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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