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Der Nordseeraum ist bis heute ein Faszinosum: vom Mythos des untergegangen Rungholt über den noch immer spukenden Schimmelreiter Hauke Haien bis zur einzigartigen, amphibischen Welt der Halligen. Die vorliegende literaturwissenschaftliche Studie erschließt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-07-01
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The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature.The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-01
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Modernist literature is defined by entropic characteristics. Its common themes include fragmentation, uncertainty, distrust, and misunderstanding. Alongside these themes, however, exists a desire to rebuild, to distill elements of past constructs into something that can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-30
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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-30
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Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen. Ähnliches geschieht, wenn die Kanzone aus dem altokzitanischen Sprachraum oder das Sonett von...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-06-25
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This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found in children's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-24
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This book sets out to answer why genre matters when analysing sagas, medieval literature, and creation in general. How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas applies theoretical observations on the workings of genre to saga literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-17
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This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies. Taylor examines how fossil fuels have frequently been described as the lifeblood of capitalist modernity, making petroleum appear as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-13
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This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-11
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The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the “wanderings” or Apologos of Odysseus, Chapter 3 explores the “lying tales” told by Odysseus in disguise upon...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-11
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This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese literature. Developed from a series of lectures at the Shanghai Library, the text features insights from ten prominent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-10
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'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.'
One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-06
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus.The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative patterns....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-05
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'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.'
One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-05
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Open Secrets examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-04
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Metaversum verschmilzt die industrielle Welt in eine Realität mit erweiterter (augmented reality, AR) und virtueller Realität (VR). Parallel wird auch die Erforschung naturwissenschaftlicher Phänomene, deren schnelle Umsetzung in nachhaltige Innovationen und das...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2025-06-04
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This collected volume celebrates the life and work of the late Andrew Stables, a renowned scholar in semiotics and in educational philosophy and theory. He is known, in particular, for having pioneered the semiotic approach to education.This book celebrates his work...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-06-03
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus.The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative patterns....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-03
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This open access book presents fresh archival evidence to explore the underexamined manuscript cultures of girls living in Britain in the late nineteenth century. Girls were keen writers during this period, which witnessed Golden Ages of children's literature and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-02
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Das Buch untersucht, wie sich die Feindschaft gegenüber postkolonialen Gastmigranten*innen in fiktiven europäischen Gemeinschaften manifestiert. Es analysiert die Auswirkungen feindseliger Strukturen auf die Integration von Asylsuchenden sowie auf die soziale Kohäsion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-06-02
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