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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just any woman. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-10
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This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-10
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Between 22 June and 18 August 1818, John Keats and his friend and collaborator Charles Armitage Brown embarked on an epic walking tour of the English Lake District, South West Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Ayrshire Burns Country, the Scottish Highlands and Western...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-10
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The Aesthetic Commonplace is a study of the everyday as a region of overlooked value in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.The Romantic poet, the realist novelist, and the modern philosopher are each separately associated with a...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-10
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This book offers an in-depth, cross-cultural and transdisciplinary discussion of the translatability of social emotions. The contributors are leading philosophers, semioticians, anthropologists, communication and translation theorists from Europe, America and Australia....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-09
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Dystopien haben Konjunktur. Sie stellen der Gegenwart eine Diagnose, hypertrophieren sie und üben Kritik an den Zeitverhältnissen.Dystopien fokussieren u.a. den Rückbau demokratischer Systeme und globaler Sozialgefüge, das Aufkeimen von Rassismus, Antisemitismus und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-03-09
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Lyrik und Lyriktheorie wurden in der Komparatistik oft vernachlässigt. Aufgrund der besonderen Sprachgebundenheit vonLyrik ist es zwar nicht selbstverständlich, sie aus einer transnationalen, sprachübergreifenden Perspektive zu untersuchen, allerdings bleiben dann...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-03-07
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Im 43. Jahrgang der Simpliciana werden die Vorträge veröffentlicht, die während der Tagung der Grimmelshausen-Gesellschaft zum Thema «Satirisches Schreiben bei Grimmelshausen und in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit» Mitte September 2021 in Gelnhausen gehalten wurden.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-03-05
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'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening together brings a...
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Sandycove
Parution :
2022-03-03
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Der sich seit 2000 etablierende Anthropozän-Diskurs begreift die Menschheit als geophysikalische Kraft. Wesentliche Strukturmerkmale dieses Diskurses und seiner Narrative sind das Einnehmen einer planetarischen Perspektive auf die globale Umweltkrise, eine...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-03-03
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'I wonder what will become of her!'
So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-03
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'I wonder what will become of her!'
So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-03
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In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-03
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In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-03
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The death of God in the West was the prelude to a metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated,...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-03-02
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Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-27
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Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-27
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Die Untersuchung von Geschlechterbildern in der mittelalterlichen Literatur hat uns heute noch etwas zu sagen. Der Blick auf Geschlechterrollen der damaligen Zeit kann eine aktive Rolle bei der Aushandlung von Geschlechterverhältnissen in der Gegenwart spielen:...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-02-25
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