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American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situatesAmerican poetry within a world of global media to reveal the broad institutional, technological, and cultural resonances of poetic voice. Reading work by Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-02
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In times of global crisis and uncertainty, narrative literary works serve not only as sources of pleasure but also as catalysts for social and political transformation. Across the American hemisphere, spanning languages, cultures, and national borders, recent utopian...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-02-01
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This book approaches the nature of Emily Dickinson from a multi-dimensional perspective. It studies nature in Dickinson’s works from five aspects including historical, pictorial, ecocritical, philosophical and nonhuman perspectives, providing a tentative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much interested in plots; she works instead by juxtaposition, leaving it up to the reader to feel the vibrations between one situation and another. Nor is she...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-30
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'One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way'
Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story of two missionary priests, travelling...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in writings by female mystics including Angela of Foligno, Catherine of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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Metaphor is of vital concern to the discipline of literary studies as well as the field of animal studies. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s philosophy and Paul Ricœur’s tropology, this book studies the spectrality of metaphor in relation to animal figures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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Literatursoziologische Fragen sind seit einiger Zeit wieder ins Blickfeld der germanistischen Forschung gerückt, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen, ökonomischen und technologischen Entwicklungen, die die Literaturbranche grundlegend verändern. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-19
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Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work at large. Heaney's later life was a time...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-18
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A year of firsts, feats, and fortitudes. All in one remarkable year - in 2024-25, India clinched its maiden ICC Women's Cricket World Cup win; the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in Paschim Bardhaman District, West Bengal, rolled out 700 locomotives; the nation...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2026-01-15
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This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness. Accused by their critics of lowness and inconsequentiality, these works act as literary mediations of a lower middle-class urban...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-14
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Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work at large. Heaney's later life was a time...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-11
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This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys. Jakobsson examines minor characters and their role, as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-09
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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'
This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-07
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This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the field of Shakespeare studies in recent years while simultaneously highlighting the contributions of Hugh Grady to that intellectual endeavour. The book is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-05
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-04
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-04
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This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity. By covering work by authors such as Lu Xun, Yuan Shu, Zhou Libo, Bing Xin, Ding Lin, Guo Xiaochuan, Ye...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-02
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This landmark volume offers a bold response from the East to the Western classic The Golden Bough, bringing Chinese perspectives into the global conversation on comparative mythology.
Through a close examination of the culturally distinctive motif of the “Jade...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Erinnern stiftet Identität, sowohl für Einzelne als auch für Gruppen und Kulturen, denn es stellt über eine gemeinsam geteilte Vergangenheit Verbindungen und Verbindlichkeiten her. DochErinnern beruht auf subjektiver Wahrnehmung und ist – wie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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