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In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy....
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-27
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Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human relations, in...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-27
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The late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and São Paulo, in London and Lisbon, in Gotha, Stuttgart, and Venice. This lively collection of essays...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-26
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The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power.The first monographic study of her work to date, Anne Carson:The Glass Essayist makes the case for the acclaimed poet,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-08-25
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Spätestens seit den 1970er Jahren wird die (fehlende) Wissenschaftlichkeit literaturwissenschaftlicher Interpretationen diskutiert – eingefordert werden Klarheit und Stringenz der Argumentation sowie nachvollziehbare Begründungen der aufgestellten Thesen. Ausgehend von...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-08-25
Collection :
Theorema. Literaturtheorie, Methodologie, Ästhetik
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Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-24
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This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-24
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In dieser Studie wurden ausgehend von einer Feststellung im Leseunterricht Leseziele,Lesestile, Lesestrategien und Textgattungswissen im Hinblick auf ihre Auswirkungenaufeinander und ihre Beziehung zueinander im Leseverstehensprozessanalysiert. Um das eigene Lesen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-08-24
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This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-23
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Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-22
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"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at [Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations."
Epic poetry and tragic drama provide...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-22
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-16
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Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-16
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De forma assaz enfática, e muito consciente, o mundo medieval representa-se a simesmo, nas suas múltiplas práticas sociais e estético-culturais, através da figuraçãoanimal. Pela mão de um assinalável conjunto de especialistas, esta obra faz-nos,assim, recuar a um tempo...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-08-16
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Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-08-15
Collection :
Decolonizing the Curriculum
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'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.'
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-15
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'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.'
One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-15
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In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-12
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The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide,The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-09
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This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-06
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