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This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Tracing the changing functions of the literary list across time, it offers a broad range of case studies which situate selected enumerations in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-23
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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
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2023-05-23
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This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-22
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This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-20
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Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-19
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The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Ähnlichkeit ermöglicht es, Gleichheit in der Abweichung zu erkennen. Ideengeschichtlich reicht das Denken in Ähnlichkeiten bis in die Antike zurück und hat in jüngerer Zeit vor allem in der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung an Relevanz gewonnen. Der Band konzentriert...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-16
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1920 erschien Karel Capeks Drama R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots, das bereits im Januar 1921 uraufgeführt wurde und innerhalb von zwei Jahren Übersetzungen in dreißig Sprachen und weltweit Aufführungen erlebte. Seitdem ist nicht nur das Wort Roboter in der Welt. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-15
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Herberth Herlitschka (1893-1970) war einer der engagiertesten und einflussreichsten englisch-deutschen Übersetzer der späten Weimarer Republik und der Nachkriegszeit. Sein guter Instinkt und ein weitreichendes Netzwerk in der Welt der internationalen Literaturszene...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-15
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As a niche field, pilgrimage studies has long been multidisciplinary and draws interest from pilgrims, practitioners, and academic scholars. Despite the burgeoning corpus of pilgrimage literature, there is a gap related to disciplinary-specific publications which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-15
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The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-13
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This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid), and Claudian (De Raptu Proserpinae). It sheds new light on the importance of Valerius' poem and enhances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-12
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-09
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This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid), and Claudian (De Raptu Proserpinae). It sheds new light on the importance of Valerius' poem and enhances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-09
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This volume honours Federica Scarpa, a prominent figure in Translation Studies who has made a major contribution to defining, describing and researching specialised translation. In her body of research, Scarpa has successfully combined insights from a variety of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-09
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Many metal songs incorporate poetry into their lyrics using a broad array of techniques, both textual and musical. This book develops a novel adaptation, appropriation, and quotation taxonomy that both expands our knowledge of how poetry is used in metal music and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-05
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Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-04
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Ausgehend von der Rolle der Technologie in der heutigen Gesellscha und der Eekte, die sie auf die Entwicklungen der Individuen hat, widmet sich dieser Band dem Verhältnis von Natur und Künstlichkeit im Rahmen literarischer Scha ensprozesse. Mit dem Ziel, dem Problem des...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-04-30
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Die vorliegende Studie operationalisiert eines der meistdiskutierten Konzepte der Narratologie für die digitale Annotation von Erzähltexten: Binnenerzählungen. Anhand des erzählerischen und dramatischen Werks Heinrich von Kleists werden Annotationsschemata für narrative...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-30
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