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Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-12
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The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism recovers a neglected literary history. In the late 1950s, news began to arrive in Britain of a group of French writers who were remaking the form of the novel. In the work of Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-10
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This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-10
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Ann-Kristin Haude spürt hier der Komplexität des Wasserraums nach, indem sie 14 Prosatexte aus der deutschsprachigen Literatur der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit der Zielsetzung untersucht, die literarische Architektur der Relationierung zwischen Wasserräumen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-12-09
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Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-09
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Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-09
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The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism recovers a neglected literary history. In the late 1950s, news began to arrive in Britain of a group of French writers who were remaking the form of the novel. In the work of Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-05
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-05
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-03
Collection :
Literary Lives
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This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop’s writing. This collection considers Bishop’s reworking of metrical and rhythmic forms of poetry; the increasing presence of prosaic utterances...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly asymptomatic? Challenging the prevailing literary critical inclination toward what makes texts exceptional or distinctive, Genre and White Supremacy in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Voss’s exploration of the interior of Australia, as a parable of the writer’s exploration of the Australian historical, social and cultural context of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-28
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This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
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In diesem Buch analysiert Edvin Cami Polaritäten wie Ost und West, Islam und Christentum, Religion und Säkularität, Eigenheit und Fremdheit, Konflikt und Begegnung im literarischen Schaffen Goethes. Über die Gedichtsammlung West-östlicher Divan hinaus wird das Thema...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-27
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Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-26
Collection :
Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
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Das Werk Adalbert Stifters zeichnet sich durch eine markante Aufmerksamkeit für das Kleine und vermeintlich Geringfügige aus, er gilt als Dichter des Details. Bereits die zeitgenössische Kritik hat sein „Diminutivtalent“ und Interesse für das „Kleinleben der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-26
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Winner of the 2020 C. Hugh Holman Award
William Faulkner has enjoyed a secure reputation as American modernism's foremost fiction writer, and as a landmark figure in international literary modernism, for well over half a century. Less secure, however, has been any...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-26
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