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An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. ‘What is literature?’ is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-11
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Essays collected in this book discuss textual and discursive formulations of dominance and resistance. The authors analyze how they are narrated and re-narrated, framed and reframed in different social, political and language communities and realities, through different...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-11
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The articles in this volume represent a wide range of perspectives on the literary art of Ali Smith; one of the most significant figures in the field of contemporary British literature. Focussing on concepts of visual and linguistic representation, these papers reflect...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-10
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When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-07
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When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-07
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Das Versepos, einst bedeutend unter den literarischen Gattungen und mit einer reichen Tradition seit der Antike, ist im deutschsprachigen wie im europäischen Raum seit etlichen Jahrzehnten deutlich weniger im Fokus. Immer wieder totgesagt, ist es jedoch lebendiger als...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-07
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frashëri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it . . . A joy to read' W. S....
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2020-02-06
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As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-05
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This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays, it argues that Shakespeare systematically exploits early modern physiological, religious, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-05
Collection :
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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Pound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry?examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision. The critical insistence that poetry be precise affected every one of these poets, and looking at...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-04
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This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-04
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Das Buch eröffnet einen völlig anderen Blick auf die Romantik: Anstelle von Nostalgie, unendlicher und unerfüllter Annäherung steht das Harmonische und Versöhnliche im Mittelpunkt. Jacob Burda vertritt die in der Forschungsliteratur neue These, dass die Figur der guten...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-03
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Philosophie
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This study discusses the representation of class in poetry in English from Britain and Ireland between the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries, and the effect of class on the production, dissemination, and reception of that poetry. It looks at the factors which enable...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-30
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Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film explores ways that late 20th- and early 21st- century fiction and film from Japan literally and figuratively map Tokyo. The four dozen novels, stories, and films discussed here describe, define, and reflect on Tokyo urban space. ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-30
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