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The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated.The popularity of the Arabian Nights andThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-03-14
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Adolescence is a phase of transition, change and upheaval. These processes are often translated into movements through space in literary representations. The narrated space is to be read in its construction and semantics as a complex symbol carrier that is able to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-13
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The volume presents Handke's works from Hornissen (1966) to Das zweite Schwert (2020) in individual analyses and at the same time opens up overarching orientations of Handke's writing.The autoreflexive traces that characterise the author's experimental early work are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-13
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu analysieren, was genau sich in diesen Texten im...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-13
Collection :
Neue Romantikforschung
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This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-12
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Information Text: In the early modern period, numerous texts deal with professions by presenting the knowledge required in each case, individual fields of activity, purpose, origin and prestige. The course of argumentation is humanistic, insofar as it mostly starts from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-10
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Die Geschichte des modernen deutschen Dramas beginnt mit Lessing. Gleichwohl gilt er als Autor, der an einer Schwelle steht: Er bereitet den Klassikern den Weg, bleibt aber hinter ihnen zurück. Lessing ist der „Vorklassiker“ der deutschen Literatur, gerühmt und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-09
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Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-09
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'Who would you say knows himself?'
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was one of the circle...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-08
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This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough has been done to distinguish patriarchy from masculinity and proposes to detox masculinity by offering a collection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-07
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This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities—the ‘digital polis’—and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-04
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Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material? Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity shows how the foundational ideas...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-03-04
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Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-01
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Dieser Open Access-Band dokumentiert die Beiträge des DFG-Symposions 2017 und ist Teil der Reihe der DFG-Symposionsbände. Die Tagung 2017 zum Thema „Digitale Literaturwissenschaft“ behandelte in vier Sektionen die Veränderungen, die das Fach der germanistischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-01
Collection :
Germanistische Symposien
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This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-01
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This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence--but also in their capacity to shape readers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-01
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Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century. Taking the work of five key poets as case studies and drawing on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-28
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Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-28
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Es gehört Mut dazu, etwas Neuartiges zu wagen: So gibt es in der Literaturwissenschaft zwar unterschiedliche Methoden, mit Texten umzugehen, aber eine psychologische ist weniger üblich. Dieses Buch nähert sich dem Thema der Selbstliebe, das in der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-02-24
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