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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
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2023-02-23
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This edited collection brings together scholars from across the world, including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the USA and India, to offer a truly international perspective on the global reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the 18th century to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-22
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Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.
The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps us to think about some of most pressing problems of the twenty-first century by offering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-22
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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
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2023-02-21
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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
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2023-02-20
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Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-15
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Englishes in Africa is an important new edited collection which explores various aspects of English in contemporary Africa. The authors examine the current state of English in eight countries where the language plays a major role: Cameroun, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-10
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Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate withinIrish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives fromIrish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-08
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Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.
The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps us to think about some of most pressing problems of the twenty-first century by offering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-07
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This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University).This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-03
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In Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric, Mara Lee Grayson calls attention to the complicity of academic institutions and the discipline(s) of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-03
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Metafiktion ist ein in der Literaturwissenschaft seit den 1970-er Jahren immer wieder diskutiertes und untersuchtes Phänomen: Es bezeichnet die auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise erzeugte Hervorhebung der Fiktionalität eines literarischen Werkes durch das Werk selbst....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-02-03
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Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait ofPhilip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a chronological and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-01
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Aus Anlass ihrer Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen erscheint der erste Sammelband über das Werk der Lyrikerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin Monika Rinck. Die Aufsätze decken ein methodisch und thematisch breites Feld ab: von Close Readings bis zu subjekttheoretischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-01-31
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Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-31
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Dieses bibliographische Handbuch verzeichnet alle selbständigen als Buch erschienenen deutschsprachigen Lyrik-Veröffentlichungen von 1945 bis 2020 in einfacher Titelaufnahme. In einem ersten Teil werden Jahresverzeichnisse 1945 bis 2020 mit jeweils alphabetischer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-01-30
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Die klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten zu finden ist....
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-01-30
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The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-29
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The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities. Although New Women resist ready classification or appraisal as a monolithic body, they tended to share many of the same...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-27
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The book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as the everyday and the social imaginary. It is a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as they are embodied in Indian bhasha...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-26
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