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Immersion used to be disregarded by academic scholarship as a secondary aspect of ancient narrative. It was mostly considered typical of a passive reading style unworthy of intellectual consideration. However, the study of the immersive strategies adopted by ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-15
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Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright's dramatic reinvention of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a wide range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-15
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship draws together leading and emerging scholars of Shakespeare and early modern literature to consider anew how authorship worked in the time in which Shakespeare wrote, and to interrogate the construction of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-15
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This book analyses Tolkien’s approach to the depiction of vices and virtues in three Middle-earth works, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. While providing a general synthetising overview of up-to-date research in the topic, its uniqueness consists...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-09-15
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'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?'
Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-12
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This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-09-11
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In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance. She fashioned a sense of literature across genre that engaged deeply with both her activism and...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-10
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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-08
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An ideal introduction and a reliable guide for students and teachers of European literature Uniquely broad in both geographic and chronological scope, A History of European Literature introduces students to the origins, influences, and historical development of European...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-09-05
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Auf der Basis eines multidimensionalen, offenen und fluiden Kulturbegriffs analysieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes eine repräsentative Auswahl deutschsprachiger Romane, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten entstanden sind und sich mit dem Themenkomplex der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-09-05
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'[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her' Kaveh Akbar, Electric Literature'This is a stunning book' Jericho Brown'A...
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Corsair
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2025-09-04
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Dieses Buch rekonstruiert die mehr-als-menschliche Dimension des Lieds im späten neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Untersucht wird die Darstellung von Vogelgesang in deutschsprachiger Lyrik, Vokalmusik und ornithologischen Schriften. Dabei wird...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-09-04
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This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’. Sojourners are a privileged group of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900–1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with American culture, and traces the evolution of their identities through...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-02
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“Writing Now offers razor sharp historicisation of contemporary cultural sensibilities emerging in Australia’s middlebrow fiction. Lucidly written, meticulously researched and carefully argued, Ricker’s book provides essential guidance to students and scholars in the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a digital medium, a process that unfolds on the margins of official discourse about the early Middle Ages. The project analyzes the adaptation of medieval...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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Latein hat die frühe Neuzeit als Sprache der internationalen Kommunikation, der Wissenschaften, der Schule und der Kirche geprägt. Man schrieb allerdings nicht nur Latein, sondern übertrug auch Texte aus allen Epochen und Herkunftssprachen ins...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-09-01
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British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed discussion of middlebrow fiction by women writers who personally witnessed the dismantling of theBritish Empire, the intensification of the Cold War, and the domestic tensions following the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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Violence is one of the most persistently repeated subjects in various discourses from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has led to serious ontological disquisitions. When it comes to the treatment of violence in drama, there has never been anyone more...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book offers case studies from throughout literature to reveal cowardice as a more complex and interesting phenomenon than typically understood. Pushing beyond the straightforward treatment of cowardice in military contexts and others where it is subject to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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