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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-31
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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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...
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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...
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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...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-25
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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 :
2023-07-24
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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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...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-07-21
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Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of his most celebrated plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1622), The Lovers' Melancholy (1628), and The Broken Heart (1629), as...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-20
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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-20
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An elegant and thorough examination of the riches of Sangam poetryIn this acclaimed comparative study, K. Kailasapathy, the celebrated Sri Lankan academic and critic, introduces and interprets ancient Tamil poems and examines the stylistic heritage, themes and motifs...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2023-07-19
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