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The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-11-17
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The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-17
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The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-17
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This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Empire in 1960. These works are understood as ‘transportal literatures’ in that they navigate the liminal and layered forms of colonialism which impede...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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Carl Einstein (1885?1940) war einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller, Kunstkritiker und Theoretiker der Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er war auch ein Mann der Tat, kämpfte in Berlin auf Seiten von Spartakus und in der Kolonne Durruti in Spanien gegen Reaktion und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-13
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Plat?n establishes the principle that literature should cut through the notion of an ideal truth rather than be used as a vehicle for subjective visions and aesthetic tropes by those claiming to be ‘artists.’ To engage with this centrality of human consciousness means...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-11-13
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This monograph provides an outlook for the translation in Europe during the Middle Ages. It has been one of the main activities for DHuMAR research project; as such, it is the first volume of a series focused on the history of Medieval translation.
This volume takes the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-13
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Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism. The authors in this collection position...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
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Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) hat als streitbarer Dramatiker, Romancier, Filmautor, Essayist und bildender Künstler das Europa der Nachkriegszeit mitgeprägt. Das Handbuch verfolgt das Ziel, sein literarisches und bildkünstlerisches Schaffen und seine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-12
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V.S. Naipaul was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the twentieth century. His writings on colonialism and its aftermath, on migration and landscape, and on cultural loss and creativity, were both admired and criticised by a wide global audience....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-12
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V.S. Naipaul was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the twentieth century. His writings on colonialism and its aftermath, on migration and landscape, and on cultural loss and creativity, were both admired and criticised by a wide global audience....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-12
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For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature; an...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2020-11-12
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100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-12
Collection :
Crime Files
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During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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Ireland’s Great Famine generated Western Europe’s most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transformational upheaval. In Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine: Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853, author...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-11-11
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Maciej Nowak’s book is the first monograph on the writings of Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), a Polish émigré writer from the millieu of Jerzy Giedroyc’s Kultura journal. Bobkowski is famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940–1944, translated into many...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-11
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This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. In examining Gaskell’s understanding of masculine identity as a social construct and considering how her writing engages with Victorian ideologies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-09
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Friederike Mayröcker zählt zu den herausragenden lyrischen Stimmen der Gegenwart. Der vorliegende Band bietet Annäherungen an ihr lyrisches Werk. Entstanden im Laufe von mehr als 70 Schaffensjahren, spiegelt es die Entwicklung einer Einzelgängerin von ihren...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-09
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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