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The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-01
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In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts avanciert die Erinnerung zu einem zentralen Gegenstand der deutschsprachigen Lyrik. Das bislang in der Forschung weitgehend marginalisierte Genre der Erinnerungslyrik wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit erstmals systematisch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-31
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Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik
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Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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Franz Kafka pflegte zu Lebzeiten intensive gesellige und intellektuelle Kontakte, die teils mit bekannten Namen verbunden, teils nahezu vergessen sind. Der Band nimmt die vielfältigen Austauschprozesse des Prager Umfelds in den Blick. Er...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-27
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This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-12-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.'
Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-26
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Das Handbuch behandelt die multilinguale Literaturlandschaft Bukowina mit ihrem zentralen Ort Czernowitz (Cernauti, Cernivci, Czerniowce) vom ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Unter Berücksichtigung unterschiedlicher kultureller, konfessioneller und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-23
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Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-20
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This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial perspective, the volume maps out how truth claims are made in different contexts, and how different media promise to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-20
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Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-20
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Band II von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes gilt den Jahren 1814 bis 1819. Lyrisches Hauptgeschäft ist der West-östliche Divan (1819). Goethes bedeutendste Gedichtsammlung ist ein Werk der interkulturellen Begegnung mit dem Orient und zugleich...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-20
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This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice. It identifies references to theological and doctrinal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-19
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This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-18
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This book provides a critical and biographical account of the fascinating hand-made book of rector William Greswell (1848-1923), in which he assembled British and American reviews and accounts of the Romantic poet, critic, philosopher, and religious thinker Samuel...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-17
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In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the product of a ‘cosmopolitan’ vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-14
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This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-12
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