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Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at school as a...
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Abacus
Parution :
2024-09-05
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As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science. Tom Rutter shows, however, that in his plays and poetry Shakespeare...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-04
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This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-04
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The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern scholars are divided between those who regard it as a major interpolation by a later poet who was trained in the technique of epic composition and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-03
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The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern scholars are divided between those who regard it as a major interpolation by a later poet who was trained in the technique of epic composition and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-03
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This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). It represents the first volume dedicated solely to critical engagement with the full range of Mew’s poetry, fiction and essays. Mew moved...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-01
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This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinship—encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individuals choose (or are compelled) to establish—through its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-31
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This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-31
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Im Fokus des russischsprachigen 91. Bandes des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs steht russophone Dichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts zwischen Modernismus („Silbernes Zeitalter“) und Underground („Bronze Age“). Die literaturhistorischen Untersuchungen und Publikationen über...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-30
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Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-30
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This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another.
The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related to each other. The...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-29
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Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing together two...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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This book introduces the origin and development of Chinese fiction before late Qing dynasty. It covers a broad range of topics in traditional Chinese fiction studies including novels written in classical and vernacular Chinese, structure and narrative of fiction...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. The encounter with his works has had profound...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-27
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This book identifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir, novel, and essay, and explores the futures they envision for migrants and their surrounding societies. The primary material ranges from personal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-24
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As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science. Tom Rutter shows, however, that in his plays and poetry Shakespeare...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-23
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Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim about the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and identity that cross genres. The volume uncovers...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-21
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