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The polar dichotomy between man and god, and the insurmountable gulf between them, are considered a fundamental principle of archaic and classical Greek religion. Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity argues that poetry produced between the eighth and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-14
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The polar dichotomy between man and god, and the insurmountable gulf between them, are considered a fundamental principle of archaic and classical Greek religion. Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity argues that poetry produced between the eighth and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-14
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What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that...
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Polity
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2019-11-12
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As soon as the Spectator model spread from England to continental Europe and began to be incorporated in French, Dutch and German translations and adaptions, the respective journalistic networks and negotiations regularly exceeded local, regional, and even national...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-11-12
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The volume “The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments” responds to the growing interest in the scientific study of the Memory of the World Programme (MoW) and its core concept of documentary heritage, which has received little...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-11
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Seit Frank Witzel 2015 den Deutschen Buchpreis für sein bisheriges opus magnum Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969 erhielt, rückt der 1955 geborene Autor, Zeichner und Musiker nachdrücklich in den Fokus der...
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J.B. Metzler
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2019-11-11
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Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-11
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This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller’s 1801 romantic tragedy, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). The author elucidates Schiller’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
Collection :
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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This book is a survey and analysis of how deep learning can be used to generate musical content. The authors offer a comprehensive presentation of the foundations of deep learning techniques for music generation. They also develop a...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-08
Collection :
Computational Synthesis and Creative Systems
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $151.90).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact order@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $151.90).
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-07
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A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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