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Sebastian Lübcke untersucht philosophische und literarische Auseinandersetzungen mit der Erfüllung und dem ontologisch Absoluten vom 18. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Texte, die sich in der Neuzeit mit dem ‚Göttlichen‘ oder dem ‚ewigen Leben‘ befassen,...
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J.B. Metzler
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2019-08-13
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-13
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Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat is the first detailed study of the cultural life and representations of the prolific twice-displaced Gujarati East African diaspora in contemporary Britain. An exceptional community...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-08
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Am 25. Juli 1936 beschloss Hitler an der Seite General Francos im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg zu intervenieren. Die geschichtsträchtige „Bayreuther Entscheidung" legte die Weichen für eine faschistische Diktatur in Spanien, die das Land über vierzig Jahre vom Rest Europas...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-08-08
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Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert onShakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takesShakespeare readers to the very foundation of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-07
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The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-06
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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poetMahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-05
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-03
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Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert onShakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takesShakespeare readers to the very foundation of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-02
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The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and description? Or is it...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which generally has no place...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-31
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This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature. Considering socio-political and philosophical ideas about British multiculturalism, superdiversity and conviviality, Ulla Rahbek studies a broad range of texts by writers from across the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-30
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This book introduces the works of a German Jewish female author and provides a detailed analysis of the early twentieth century as she witnessed it. Although a prolific writer and leader in the women’s movement, Clementine Krämer (1873–1942) is relatively unknown today....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-30
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This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
Collection :
Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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Der Band enthält Studien zum Musiktheater von der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins späte 19. Jahrhundert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Fragen der Poetik und Ästhetik sowie der spezifischen Bedeutungserzeugung im Musiktheater. Als Kombination sprachlicher, musikalischer und szenischer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Obscenity and Disruption in the Poetry of Dylan Krieger is the first full-length study of the radical poetry of Baton Rouge-based poet Dylan Krieger. Wickedly smart, iconoclastic, daring in their critiques of religion and contemporary culture, Krieger’s poems rank with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-26
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