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?This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-04-09
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Fürst Myschkin kommt in Dostojewskijs Roman Idiot beim Betrachten einer Kopie des Gemäldes von Hans Holbein Der Leichnam Christi im Grabe zu der Erkenntnis, „von einem solchen Bild kann einem der Glaube vergehen.“ Dostojewskij selbst war ein begeisterter Bildbetrachter,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-08
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Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-07
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Written in the form of a back-and-forth dialogue between the two authors, this book is about the relationship between feeling and thinking in Dickens's novels. It presents Dickens as a psychological thinker, whose generative thought may be conscious, unconscious,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literaryDecadence...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on the serious side and melancholic moods of Romantic poets. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling instead embraces the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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This book is the first monograph of its kind in the academic world which comprehensively expounds the new methodology of humanities. The quadruple-evidence method is one which integrates quadruple-evidences to open up new horizon for interpretation of ancient culture in...
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Springer
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2024-04-04
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The Land Between is the first concise history of Slovenia and Slovenes written in English by leading scholars from the country.The authors base their arguments on Slovenian, former Yugoslav, and Western sources to provide a comprehensive account of Slovenes’ political,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-04
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This book explores the influence and reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s works in Argentina, where he spent over two decades and wrote much of his oeuvre. It examines the "Gombrowicz effect" in Argentinian literature, investigating who read his works, how his themes were...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-01
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This volume of the Synergy Literature series focuses mainly on contemporary literary and cultural works in English. Authors of this book bring new perspectives on a wide range of literary works, as well as significant social movements and works of popular culture, with...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-31
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Zwischen 1933 und 1945 dokumentierten zahlreiche Geflüchtete ihre Erfahrungen mit dem NS-Regime, um die (Welt)-Öffentlichkeit über dessen Verbrechen aufzuklären. Mittels rhetorischer und narrativer Verfahren und dem gattungsspezifischen Referenzversprechen implizieren...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-03-30
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Die literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung zu Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806) setzt seit gut zwei Jahrzehnten neue Akzente. Das Werk der Autorin wird in diesem Zuge als singulärer Beitrag zur Literatur-, Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte der Romantik...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-03-29
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Neue Romantikforschung
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Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-28
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This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-25
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Rechtsprechung steht unter dem Diktat der Urteilspflicht und muss Mehrdeutigkeit daher einhegen und urteilend auflösen. Literatur hält Formen und Prozesse von Mehrdeutigkeit dagegen ohne Schwierigkeit aus. Sie werden als Potenzierung der ästhetischen Qualität sogar...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-03-22
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In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the archetypal serial killer using established formulas as well as new narrative and generic features, a combination that results in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-03-22
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The first critical survey of its kind devoted solely to literary evaluation Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab Gulf. Looking closely at the cultural archives produced by and on the Gulf migrants in Malayalam -- the predominant language of Kerala -- this book takes stock of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-20
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Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthaginian dominance, Rome begins to gain the upper hand. Following his failed attempt to attack Rome, Hannibal is devastated to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-20
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