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This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges. It sheds a new light on “May Fourth” and on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-06
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This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-05
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A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry' Jorie Graham'Full of delicate and muscular...
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Corsair
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2023-10-05
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AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new...
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Corsair
Parution :
2023-10-05
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-05
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-05
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Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple subgenres in terms of their assumed inherent political value. By drawing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-04
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Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children’s and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-04
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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-04
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The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-04
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Erich Kästner (1899-1974) ist einer der international meistgelesenen deutschsprachigen Autoren. Seine Lyrik, seine Romane für Erwachsene und vor allem seine Bücher für Kinder waren bereits in der Weimarer Republik berühmt und einflussreich, ebenso seine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-03
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The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial examinations in Ming China, breaking through the paradigm of pure literature research. This book presents an important...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-03
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) ist eine zentrale Figur der europäischen Aufklärung. Das Handbuch stellt seine Arbeiten in den Bereichen der Poetik, Rhetorik, Philosophie und Sprachforschung dar. Die Poetik erschließt sich mit Blick auf Gattungsdifferenzierungen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-03
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In dieser Studie wird anhand der rationalen Philologie die Entwicklung der historischen Frankenkönigin Brunichildis († 613) zu einer literarischen Figur in drei Hauptvarianten untersucht: Im Nibelungenlied erscheint Brünhild als Königin, in den isländischen Texten als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-02
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«A pioneering first in the English language. This is a wonderfully subtle, multifaceted study of the image in the work of one of Portugal’s greatest writers. Admirable for its depth of analysis and breadth of coverage, this is a real gift for new learners of Portuguese...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-02
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Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. The gothic, sentimental, and sensationalist undertones of openly speculative periodical accounts were accelerated...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-01
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Dieses Buch bietet einen wertvollen Ansatz für eine neue, ganzheitliche Herangehensweise zur erfolgreichen Gestaltung der Digitalisierung. Diese wird häufig mit technologischem Fortschritt gleichgesetzt oder nur aus technologisch-wirtschaftlicher Sicht betrachtet. Aber...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2023-09-30
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This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages–the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise–became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard’s infamous, brutal castration. The couple spent the rest of their lives as monastics, in each...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai, analyze 9 important...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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