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Als interdisziplinäres und praxisorientiertes Forschungsfeld prägt die Medical Humanities das Bestreben, den negativen Auswirkungen einer technisierten und rein evidenzbasierten Medizin entgegenzuwirken. Hierzu das Erkenntnispotenzial von Literatur zu nutzen, macht aus...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-05-08
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What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century?What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-07
Collection :
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
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This collection is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia and a preeminent scholar of early modern France and Italy. Lyons’s long and influential academic career has been instrumental in shaping generations of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-05-06
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This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-05
Collection :
Hispanic Urban Studies
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Although Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1787) is the most analysed of all operas, Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto has rarely been studied as a work of poetry in its own right. The author argues that the libretto, rather than perpetuating the conservative religious morality implicit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-05-05
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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-04
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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-04
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Affective Landscapes: Representation of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors draws from contemporary social and cultural theory of affect to analyze the Basque Country’s political violence since the birth of the terrorist organization E.T.A. The study focuses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-05-04
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Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft für Dummies ist eine modular angelegte, lebendig präsentierte und leicht verständliche Alternative zu bisherigen literaturwissenschaftlichen Einführungsbüchern. Es hilft unnötige Barrieren überwinden und macht das...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2021-04-30
Collection :
Für Dummies
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This book traces the development of literary poetics after postmodernism and outlines the most important features of what is defined here as «post-postmodernism».This new literary form simultaneously recovers the characteristics of the traditional novel and abandons the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-28
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An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers.
From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique body of fiction that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-27
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In der „Logik der Konkurrenz um kulturelle Legitimierung“ zur Etablierung spezifischer intellektueller „Auslese- und Bestätigungsinstanzen“ (Bourdieu) spielen Literaturpreise eine herausragende Rolle. Das Ritual ‚Literaturpreis‘ führt mit den preisstiftenden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-04-26
Collection :
Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children’s literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing examples from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-23
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'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2021-04-22
Collection :
Karen Pirie
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Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts wird zum ersten Mal der Typus des „Querulanten“ beschrieben. Es handelt sich um einen devianten Kläger, der mit unzähligen Schreiben die bürokratische Kommunikation stört, die Arbeitskapazität der Gerichte erschöpft und nötigenfalls mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-04-21
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This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of intertextuality, as that outlined by Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-04-20
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone. Surveying the nuanced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-20
Collection :
Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-16
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From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-16
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Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! Along with penning some of the most sublime passages in all of English Literature, Shakespeare was a master when it came to casting a wicked comeback or hurling a barbed insult. Whether it's Prospero calling Caliban a...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2021-04-15
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