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Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period through its popular verse forms and their surrounding social and media landscape. The volume offers insight into two central concepts of both theVictorian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-04
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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature.This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-04
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A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book ClubChosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-08-03
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This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also explores how literary practices and imagination are shaping new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-02
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Edmund Husserl’s ideas, informed by Kant’s Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and subjectivity. In his “Phänomenologie und Egologie” (1961/63), Jan Broekman revealed how Husserl analysed the “Split Ego” notion in...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-08-01
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This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-31
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This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept of barbarism from the eighteenth century to the present and highlights its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative and interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-31
Collection :
Schriften zur Weltliteratur/Studies on World Literature
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Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-27
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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 :
2023-07-27
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British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-27
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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.
Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-07-26
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People's War" to the "People's Peace," this book shows that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Buchs diskutieren das Verständnis von Rhetorik, mit dem heute in Literatur- und Rechtswissenschaft gearbeitet wird. Sie beleuchten, inwiefern sich die westliche Tradition von rhetorischen Perspektiven aus anderen Sprach-, Kultur- und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Der Umgang mit erzählenden Texten und Medien spielt im Deutschunterricht eine zentrale Rolle. Dabei sollen Schüler/innen lernen, deren Darstellungsverfahren wahrzunehmen, sie mithilfe eines adäquaten Begriffsinstrumentariums zu beschreiben und ihre ästhetische Wirkung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-25
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research in Chinese writing. It covers recent trends such as cross-media practices, pedagogy in creative writing in China,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-22
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This book analyzes the various ways of coming to terms with the Emmett Till case in US fiction. The 1955 lynching of the fourteen-year-old black youth in the Mississippi Delta raised a cultural trauma in the US collective imaginary that particularly pierced the African...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-07-21
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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to medio-translatology, including its historical and literary setting, its core concept, and its practice and theory. Medio-translatology, inspired by scholarship in comparative literature and the “cultural turn” in Western...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-20
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