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"All real art," wrote William Morris, "is ornamental." If Morris is right, then ornament is not, as some would have it, a triviality, a sign of "want," or a crime. Instead, Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real argues for the many and varied ways in which the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-22
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This volume offers a new perspective on the Zagros region literary tradition. Gurani literature boasts a collection of the region’s oldest oral and written literary traditions. Despite its significance, the repertoire and its essential function in the preservation...
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Springer
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2025-08-21
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This edited volume comprehensively explores narrative survival in Indigenous film and literature, forging a literary and transitional approach to native writing. It navigates the evolution of Indigenous voices, spanning the oral tradition and literary forms from...
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Springer
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2025-08-21
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In una semplice piazza di paese, un oggetto elegante e frivolo come un ventaglio scatena una girandola di malintesi, pettegolezzi e passioni nascoste. La giovane Candida, per un capriccio, desidera disperatamente il ventaglio lasciato cadere dalla bella Geltruda. Quel...
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Cactus
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2025-11-01
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich Christian Krachts Ästhetik unter zwei Hauptaspekten: Zum einen hinsichtlich bisweilen irritierend verdrehter Aktualisierungen jener Selbstbezüglichkeit und Vorbehaltlichkeit, die seit Kant als ein zentraler Modus des Ästhetischen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-26
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Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-06
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Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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The New Middle Ages
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Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
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Abacus
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new...
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Wiley
Parution :
2015-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies
Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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This book unearths a forgotten history of exchange and enlightenment between China and the West, told through vivid examples drawn from the world of poetry, the philosophy of culture and religion, and the realm of international communication. Across chapters that cover...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Lettern- und Lautgedichten machte er sich in den 1950er Jahren in seiner Heimat Wien zum Außenseiter, fand jedoch rasch Anerkennung in den Zentren der Konkreten Poesie in Stuttgart,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-18
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Even after he achieved world-wide fame through books such as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Screwtape Letters, the Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis – often regarded as uncomplicatedly English by critics and the general public – proudly and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-14
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Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year is a charming collection of 366 quotes and short passages drawn fromJane Austen's novels, with excerpts from her intimate, witty letters scattered throughout. This book is perfect for reading or sharing and brings you passages from...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2025-08-14
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The thesis of the book is that in the early modern period, literature claimed precedence over the observation of nature. There were shifts through phases of temporary parity, the priority of natural sciences in the 19th century, and their critique by literature in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-14
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This book moves the field of study of Arab women’s writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the “bravery” that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Der vorliegende Open Access-Band leuchtet den Zusammenhang von Übersetzung und Raum in spezifisch frühneuzeitlichen Untersuchungssettings exemplarisch aus. Dazu setzt er von zwei Seiten an: Erstens fragen Beiträge aus Germanistik, Judaistik, Latinistik...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Graham Greene in the 1930s presents a major new reading of Greene’s literary works and critical writings from the 1930s, a period of increasing academic interest and importance. Greene’s works from this period encompass a wide range of forms, genres and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communities that have been marginalized in colonial discourses attempt to reconstruct their identities, histories, and narratives through the use of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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