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Rabindranath Tagore and Music in the Age of Nationalism explores the political, social, cultural, and emotional history of Bengal, focusing on the development of modern Bengali subjectivity. The unifying theme isRabindranath Tagore's creative and critical progress,...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to consider the life of utopian imagining within the frame of...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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Contemporary media ecosystems are deeply entangled with algorithms, which play an increasingly pervasive role in shaping our environment and mediating our perception of reality. This book aims to provide a critical map of a rapidly evolving mediascape in which humans,...
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Springer
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2026-02-18
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'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...'
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets with a stuttering, archaic 'whither' that sceptically hovers between...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-16
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Dieter Forte, dieser Auffassung sind nicht nur zahlreiche Kritikerinnen und Kritiker, gehört zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Schriftstellern der Gegenwart. Sein Werk umfasst ungemein wirkungsvolle Theaterstücke, Hörspiele, Fernsehfilme und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-02-13
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"This excellent volume—the first book-length study in English on Despentes’s writing—is rich, timely and insightful. Schaal’s rigorous analysis contextualises Despentes’s work carefully in relation to contemporary writing and thought, highlighting its intersections with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-02-13
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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-12
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People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English Colonies' sprung up, not in the far-reaches of the Empire, but in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-11
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This book examines the importance of Classics and classical reception in the poetry, novels, translations, essays, and letters of Richard Aldington (1892-1962). The book has a double focus: first, to demonstrate the ubiquity of Classics in Aldington's writings from...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-11
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This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical, dialogical, and sustainable approaches to developing children’s literature in university classrooms. Its core pillars—environmental...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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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 :
2026-02-08
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'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'
Charles Lamb was employed full-time as a clerk in the City of London for most of his adult life, hence his literary output is relatively small when compared with freelance contemporaries such...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-07
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Questo primo di tre volumi di Scritti 1975-2025 di Franco Marucci ripresenta saggi interpretativi estratti dalla sua Storia della letteratura inglese, uscita dal 2003 al 2018 con innovativi criteri manualistici e ladozione di aggiornati strumenti critici. Il punto di...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-02-06
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Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to consider the life of utopian imagining within the frame of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-06
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A Hauntological Investigation of the Works of Thomas Meyer: Sun Nailed to Water is a bibliographical study that draws critical and literary-historical attention to the works of the poet Thomas Meyer, situating his writing within postwar ("New American") queer and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-05
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Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental autobiography and life writing scholarship. Written by Meg Jensen, a scholar whose career has focused on how we process trauma through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-04
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Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets with a stuttering, archaic 'whither' that sceptically hovers between...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-03
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This book presents a theoretical framework for hermeneutic musical analysis, enriched with numerous practical examples. Joan Grimalt’s latest work emphasises discursive and dramaturgical dimensions, grounded in hermeneutical principles. Building on his previous...
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Springer
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2026-02-03
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American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situatesAmerican poetry within a world of global media to reveal the broad institutional, technological, and cultural resonances of poetic voice. Reading work by Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-02
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