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Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-06
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Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the historian. Parkman in his historical narratives served as a source for a variety of poems by Stevens, including some of his more...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-07-05
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Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-05
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Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Die einzelnen Studien dieser Open Access-Monographie (zu Werken u.a. von A. Andersch, Th. Bernhard, H. Böll, M. Frisch, G. Grass, H. Risse, A. Schmidt, O.F. Walter und G. Wohmann) geben in der Summe einen Überblick über die Variabilität, mit der das Verfahren narrativer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-04
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-04
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This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-03
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Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-30
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During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time, this radical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-28
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Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-28
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British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-28
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Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-28
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Vorstellungen von der Zukunft bestimmen das menschliche Handeln. In energiewirtschaftlichen Fragen sind solche Antizipationen besonders relevant: Staaten beschließen Förderprogramme, Unternehmen errichten Kraftwerke, Privatpersonen füllen ihre Öltanks oder...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-06-27
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft
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Märchen stellen eine der bekanntesten Literatur- und Erzählformen dar. Ihre Typologie, Geschichte und ihre vielfältigen literarischen und weiteren medialen Erscheinungsformen sind Gegenstand einer oft schon unüberschaubaren Forschung. Das Handbuch bietet einen Überblick...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-06-27
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-27
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« La vieillesse, c’est ce qui arrive aux gens qui deviennent vieux ; impossible d’enfermer cette pluralité d’expériences dans un concept ou même une notion. » (Simone de Beauvoir, La vieillesse, Livre II, 11). Dans cet ouvrage, des chercheurs de différents horizons...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-06-27
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This book aims to provide a detailed study of young adult fiction concentrating on Mexican teenage (im)migrants to the United States and their search for identity. In its quest to define young adult (im)migration literature as a genre, the first chapter combines and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-06-27
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This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors across the colonial,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-26
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«Stages of Madness is an important new study of the representation of madness on the early modern English stage. Rigorously researched yet also highly readable, Andrew J. Power’s book provides original and compelling close readings of early modern plays such as The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-26
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Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-26
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