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This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-24
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Questo volume offre un accompagnamento alla lettura di Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) attraverso saggi che affrontano – da punti di vista diversi – diciassette dei molti libri pubblicati dall’autore siciliano. Si compone così un moderno e aggiornato Companion sciasciano,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-06-21
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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 :
2023-06-19
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This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-19
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In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than previous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-18
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This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime. Building on the author’s previous monograph Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory and discourse in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-17
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The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings. But when did we learn that we live in an environment? While scholars have often located the emergence of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-15
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"Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? This book starts at the Paris Morgue and takes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-14
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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 :
2023-06-14
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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 :
2023-06-14
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Das Buch untersucht deutschsprachige Texte von KZ-Überlebenden aus Buchenwald und Dachau, die in den zwei produktivsten Phasen der Holocaustliteratur (1945-1949/1979-Gegenwart) veröffentlicht wurden. Die Autorin untersucht das Täterbild narratologisch und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-06-14
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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 :
2023-06-14
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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 :
2023-06-14
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This book explores poetry by Sherko Bekas, a Kurdish writer and Swedish Tucholsky award winner, providing contextualising biography (with original new information from an interview with his son) and critical stylistic analyses of two selected poems. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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This book examines the correspondence between international relations (IR) theories of structural realism and constructivism and paintings, notably the artwork of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, in a game theory setting.This interdisciplinary approach, through the lens...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-08
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Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for “late stage”...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-07
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This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While most academic studies of fantasy follow the well-trodden path of focusing on Tolkien, Rowling, and others, our collection spotlights rich and unique...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-07
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Poetry and astronomy often travel together in the political sphere, from Milton's meeting with Galileo under house arrest to NASA's practice of launching poems into space. Anchored in the post-war period but drawing on a long history of poetry and science, LyricPoetry...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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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 :
2023-06-07
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