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'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?'
Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-05
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This book explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-03
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Comics und Graphic Novels als Unterrichtsgegenstände sind bislang wenig etabliert, obgleich sie ein breites Spektrum an Möglichkeiten für eine unterrichtliche Auseinandersetzung bieten. Der vorliegende Band lotet diese didaktischen Perspektiven aus. In den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies. It demonstrates that the hunting and killing of animals was (and still is) a highly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North. It offers a comparative framework which underlines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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This is the first fully annotated edition of The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (previously known as Table Talk) since 1892, the very first based on a critical scrutiny of twenty-one surviving manuscripts, fifteen more than any previous editor knew existed.This expanded...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life.Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and—most disturbingly of all for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-26
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Fiktionalität ist ein Bewußtseinsphänomen. Anders als in den zahlreichen bereits zur Verfügung stehenden Studien wird das Fiktionale hier aufgefaßt als eine spezifische Projektionsleistung durch das menschliche Bewußtsein – des Textproduzenten wie des Rezipienten. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This collection concentrates on the secondary works of Louisa May Alcott and looks at the idea that Alcott was as heavily influenced by her times as by her transcendentalist upbringing. Her work often subverts the conventional and includes the new, the practical, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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This book argues that the revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, and post-revolutionary dialectics in modern Chinese history since the early-20th century characterizes modern and contemporary Chinese literature the most. Central to these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Ellipsen stellen eine sprachliche Form dar, die wiederkehrend und mit erkennbaren ästhetischen Funktionen in literarischen Texten vorzufinden ist. Doch um welche Arten von ästhetischen Funktionen handelt es sich dabei genau? Diese Frage steht im Zentrum der vorliegenden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites the reader to view classical antiquity through the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel who engaged...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-19
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This book explores the connections between space and narrative through an in-depth analysis of the fourteenth-century Middle English Breton lays. The work employs a range of critical approaches pertaining to the spatial turn and geocriticism and presents a nuanced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-18
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This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism. It discusses the representative works of authors, Wang Anyi,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-17
Collection :
Chinese Culture
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By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth's deep history, from the planet's molten origins to the rise of humanity. Many figures in transatlantic science across subsequent decades, however, had...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-14
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This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of “loneliness” in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources. Contrary to current scholarly consensus that loneliness in Britain was...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-13
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Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle’s, John Lydgate’s and John Gower’s works and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-12
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while his moral judgements are often subtly challenging. He is an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis brings together for the first time all of the published writings of Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), a major contributor to literary modernism and one of the most important British painters of the first half of the twentieth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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