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This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Die Geschichte der Kultur ist schillernd, vielseitig und spannend. Begegnen Sie mit diesem Buch den schönen Künsten und beschäftigen Sie sich mit Literatur und Musik, mit Schauspiel und Tanz. Lernen Sie die vielfältige Welt des Glaubens und Denkens kennen und lassen Sie...
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Wiley-VCH
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2019-10-02
Collection :
Für Dummies
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Der Uhrmacher Friedrich Corleis ging 1873 nach Altona, damit in ein Zentrum der deutschen Uhrenfertigung. Dort leitete er bald ein bedeutendes Uhrengeschäft. Corleis besaß eine ungewöhnliche Doppelbegabung. Immer wichtiger wurde ihm seine literarische Tätigkeit. Er...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-02
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„Eine Romanbibliothek der rigorosesten Auswahl, und beschränkte man sie auf ein Dutzend Bände, auf zehn, auf sechs, – sie dürfte ‚Effi Briest’ nicht vermissen lassen“ (Thomas Mann). Das Handbuch stellt den bekanntesten Roman Theodor Fontanes und damit einen der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-10-02
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This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille’s Plaint of Nature, René d’Anjou’s Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes’s Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-30
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Das Konzept der Weltliteratur ist über die Komparatistik hinaus zu einem grundlegenden Paradigma für die Erforschung der Literatur avanciert, das sich neben dem lange herrschenden nationalen etabliert hat. Die gerade durch neue literarische Entwicklungen komplexer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-30
Collection :
Germanistische Symposien
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The Works of James Melville presents both published and unpublished prose and poetry by Scottish divine James Melville (1556–1614). James Melville has been largely ignored as a significant figure in the life of the Scottish Church in the late sixteenth and early...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-30
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What is Sci-Fi?
Science fiction is a non-realist genre that foregrounds a sense of material plausibility, insisting that despite seeming outlandish, it is consonant with history and the laws of nature. By turns subtle and bombastic, sci-fi revels in discovery and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-30
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Aus Anlass des doppelten Geburtstages – 50 Jahre Germanistik in Hermannstadt und 60. Geburtstag von Maria Sass, der langjährigen Leiterin dieses Lehrstuhls, – greifen die literaturhistorisch, kulturwissenschaftlich und interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Beiträge aus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-30
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Der 58. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte Heinrich Heines, Rezensionen und die neueste Bibliographie der Heine-Literatur. Außerdem dokumentiert er die Verleihung des Heine-Preises der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-30
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial criticism, in order to reveal how the groundbreaking author of Orientalism turned literary criticism into a form of political intervention. Tracing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature. The essays gathered here, by new as well as established scholars...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
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The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary reality.The essays examine the concept of utopia in a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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