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When people think about Herman Melville, they often think about experiences of madness, horror, and the sublime. But throughout his life, Melville was deeply and persistently interested in beauty. In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagements with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-27
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Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-22
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Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s onwards. Although an early form of Celticism disappeared with the demise of the Celtic Revivals of Ireland...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-20
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This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-15
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2022 erscheint der 61. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u. a. Untersuchungen zu zwei der berühmtesten lyrischen Werke Heines: eine narratologische Analyse der „Heimkehr“ und eine Quellenstudie zum „Sklavenschiff“. Neben Artikeln von Norbert Waszek über Heines...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-12-15
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with today. Troubling...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-14
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Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-14
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-14
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This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-13
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This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing—two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-13
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine breit angelegte, digital unterstu¨tzte, korpusbasierte Studie zur Referenzierung von Orten und Räumen in Erzähltexten. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, insbesondere narratologischer Forschung sowie mathematischen, philosophischen,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-12-12
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Das Handbuch dokumentiert den Stand der Idyllenforschung und zeigt neue Wege auf, um die ‚Idylle‘ und das ‚Idyllische‘ literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlich zu erfassen. Damit erfüllt es das Desiderat eines zeitgenössischen Konzepts der Gattung, das auch idyllische...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-12-08
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This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period.This study details the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-08
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Indigenous women from the Americas are on the frontlines of activism in battles ranging from environmental protection, cultural and language revitalization and preservation, sovereignty campaigns, sexual violence, and human rights. This book introduces voices of Native...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-08
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With the acceleration of the globalization process over the last decades, the understanding of translations as privileged forms of cultural interference has constantly advanced. However, a translational approach to national cultures is absent from the concerns of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-12-08
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Evelyn Conlon is one of Ireland’s most important writers. She has published four collections of short stories, My Head is Opening (1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (1993), Telling: New and Selected Short Stories (2000) and Moving about the Place (2021) and four...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-08
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This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors--in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more--occupy a range of subject-positions. Unlike poetry, modern literary prose has no rhetorical repertoire or structure (beyond those of grammar) that one could...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-07
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Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-07
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Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s onwards. Although an early form of Celticism disappeared with the demise of the Celtic Revivals of Ireland...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-05
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Este libro es un estudio sobre la obra que supuestamente escribió el primer obispo que ocupó la sede de Santo Domingo, el humanista italiano Alessandro Geraldini, entre 1519-1524: Itinerarium ad regiones sub aequinoctiali plaga constitutas. Hasta ahora se habían...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-12-02
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