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This is the first book to bring perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. Particularly significant is that field's attention not only to the work of anti-war protest, but more purposefully to...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-10
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Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance ofTony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-10
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Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance ofTony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-10
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE**The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2022-02-10
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This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions1848 shows how, far from being the failure...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions1848 shows how, far from being the failure...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story, establishing the genre’s unique characteristics, situating it in a transnational context, and distinguishing it from other supernatural traditions. The study discusses why it emerged in different...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-09
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This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights into Latvian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-09
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Während der Zeit der Weimarer Republik entsteht ein breites Spektrum an Verbrechensdarstellungen und Reflexionen über Kriminalität, das erst zum Teil bzw. in Einzelstudien erforscht ist. Zudem stehen vor allem ausgewählte kanonische kriminalliterarische Texte und Filme...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-02-08
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This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)—the Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First World War veteran. For Jones, the twentieth century was a period of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-03
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This interdisciplinary and archival study explores the reception of ancient Rome in the artistic, literary, and philosophical works of David Jones (1895-1974)—the Anglo-Welsh, Roman Catholic, First World War veteran. For Jones, the twentieth century was a period of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-03
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Das Buch vergleicht die Heldeninszenierung bei Ingeborg Bachmann und Max Frisch unter Berücksichtigung der beiden Romane Malina und Mein Name sei Gantenbein sowie ausgewählter Erzählungen. Ingeborg Bachmann und Max Frisch zeigen in den behandelten Werken, dass...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-03
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This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-02
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Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-27
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Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-27
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