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Wann beginnt in der italienischen Narrativik die Darstellung einer ästhetischen Erfahrung von Natur als Landschaft? Zunächst gilt es, den Begriff der literarischen Landschaft zu umreißen, der nur auf den ersten Blick unproblematisch erscheint. In der Analyse zentraler...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-10-05
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Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-09-29
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873).
The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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Postcolonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibilities of Inheritance describes the production of a new and particular kind of postcolonial text and resituates the notion of literary influence in the context of postcolonial literatures. This book addresses the ways...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-09-03
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Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Beginning and ending...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-02
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In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-08-26
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Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-26
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Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-26
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Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pessoa was one of the most innovative figures shaping European modernism. Known for a repertoire of works penned by multiple invented authors--which he termed heteronyms--the Portuguese writer gleefully subverted the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-08-25
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This book is a full-length study of the British novelist, poet, and illustrator Stevie Smith (1902-1971). It draws on extensive archival material to offer new insights into her work, challenging conventional readings of her as an eccentric. It reveals the careful...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-12
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-22
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-22
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Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings ofRobert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-07-02
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This major new study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments, including country house entertainments, tiltyard speeches, and court masques, is the first to look in detail at the evidence provided by the surviving material texts. Drafts, royal presentation...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-17
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In Defiance of Time explores the emergence of antiquarianism in early modern England, from its first flourishing in the mid-Tudor period through to its seventeenth-century heyday. A vibrant antiquarian culture emerged, which reached beyond scholarly and historical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-17
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A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-17
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This study of the literary culture in Britain in the years after Waterloo begins with an account of two fatal duels, the famous duel of 16 February 1821, in which John Scott, editor of the London Magazine, fell, and the less well known duel of 26 March 1822, in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-10
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What does modern British and Irish literature have to do with French impressionist painting? And what does Henry James have to do with the legal dispute between John Ruskin and J.M.W. Whistler?What links Walter Pater with Conrad's portrait of a genocidal maniac in Heart...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-06-01
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The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language.The familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are all included, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-05-21
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