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This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content. Examining five North and Central American novels from the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-24
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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-23
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of “race suicide” and period representations of literary suicide. Against the backdrop of the turn-of-the-century debates over immigration...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-22
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Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for representing and re-thinking literacy itself. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-22
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-22
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This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Attending specifically to literature and literary culture, it examines how a particular region—southwest Scotland—was reimagined between 1770 and 1830. Regionalisms were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-22
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This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of Conrad’s conception of human emotions lies in his comprehensive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-18
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Die Zeit der Weimarer Republik steht heute für Kriegszerstörungen, Armut, Gewalt auf den Straßen, Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Inflation genauso wie für eine neue Unterhaltungskultur, Rausch, Dekadenz und revolutionäre Umbrüche in Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft. In diesem...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-18
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The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling.
Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-17
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König Salomo ist schon in der Bibel eine schillernde Figur und wird in außerbiblischer Literatur zum Symbol für eine Vielzahl menschlicher Eigenschaften. Dieses Buch untersucht die Themen und Inhalte, die besonders häufig mit Salomo verknüpft werden. Im Zentrum stehen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Dentro del aula es importante adquirir una competencia cultural (conocer la cultura meta), que dará como resultado hablantes que se adecúan a la situación comunicativa, pero también competencia intercultural, enfocada en desarrollar hablantes interculturales, es decir,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Written in response to a brutal ethnic conflict that shocked Europeans in the 1990s, post-Yugoslav literature addresses issues that are still pertinent today.
Looking at questions of language, gender, memory and identity, this book sheds new light on texts by three...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Looking at both Lusophone literature and literatures from around the globe from the perspective of intercultural communication, this book addresses post-colonial literature, intercultural negotiations, and how multicultural debates are reflected in literary production....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-15
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Dieses Buch untersucht, wie phänomenologische Ansätze zu den Themen Verleiblichung, Wahrnehmung und gelebte Erfahrung innerhalb der Disability Studies, der Critical Race Theory und der Queer Studies diskutiert werden. Auf Grundlage dieser Disziplinen analysiert der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-15
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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-10
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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-10
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Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-09
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Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: ReframingCrime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and comment on crime...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-09
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This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until today. It challenges perceived notions about the reduced social significance and identity-building potential of contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-09
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