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This book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance.This volume...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-26
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This book explores concepts of environmentalism and feminism in science fiction novels written by women. By extrapolating the future of climate change, the authors of these texts model how readers can apply utopian feminist and environmental theories in their own lives....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-25
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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 :
2023-04-25
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Die Bibliographie präsentiert erstmals in systematischer Weise Leben und Werk der bekannten jüdischen Jugendbuchautorin Else Ury (1877–1943), die vor allem durch ihre Nesthäkchen-Reihe große Popularität erlangte. Jedes Werk wird in seiner historischen und gegenwärtigen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-25
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Die Untersuchung des letzten großen Gedichtzyklus von Heinrich Heine, des „Romanzero“, legt mythische Denkstrukturen frei, die nach einschlägigen Mythostheorien (Blumenberg, Eliade) eine ordnende Funktion in einer dem Menschen als Chaos erscheinenden Welt erhalten....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-21
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This collection of eight essays by world-renowned philosophers and literary critics thoroughly examines the philosophical perspectives of Leo Tolstoy's immortal novel War and Peace. By examining the narrative structure, as well as the struggles and destinies of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-21
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This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-20
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This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism.This includes Frida...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-20
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This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records.This refiguration opens a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-15
Collection :
New Caribbean Studies
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This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-15
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This is an open access book.Hosted by Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, it is an annual International Seminar on Language, Education, and Culture held to gather researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students to identify and share various aspects in...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-04-13
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s 'Adab-E-Zareen', an innovative mystical poetic
work, replete with symbology, philosophy, and metaphor, is translated
from the Urdu for the first time in book form by celebrated English
language poet Sascha A. Akhtar. Written in 1936 by this...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2023-04-13
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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 :
2023-04-12
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This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollion’s success in understanding hieroglyphs, first...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-11
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How do people with and without disabilities work together in the artistic process? This volume is a compilation of 14 interviews with directors and producers of European feature films that enriches the understanding of interabled dynamics in creative ventures. It...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-04-06
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This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium. Presenting Anzaldúa...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels.
The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Diese Studie befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Identitätskonzepten im Werk von Michael Ende, vor allem mit Patchwork- und Geschlechtsidentitäten, kulturellen und hybriden Identitäten. Es wird gezeigt, wie die Figuren Identitäten konstruieren, welche Faktoren,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-03
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Literatur hat nicht selten Recht als ihren Gegenstand, und Recht regelt Literatur auf vielfältige Weise. Diese gegenseitige Vergegenständlichung, zusammengefasst unter dem Begriff der „Materialität“, geschieht in verschiedenen Formen und erfüllt unterschiedliche...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-03
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The book demonstrates an evidence-based approach to online memory practices of World War II. Network analysis is applied to reduce a massive and unreadable dataset of forum texts and user relations. Further, the results are combined with other text analysis methods,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-31
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