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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
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2025-05-30
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Bei einem Blick auf virtuelle Realitäten im frühneuzeitlichen Theater gilt es, unsere vom digitalen Zeitalter geprägten Konzepte der Virtualität und Präsenz zu revidieren. Auf dem Gebiet der Kulturen der Romania haben multiple Präsenz- und Virtualitätsverständnisse eine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-29
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Performing Libel in the Provinces provides the first book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England. The early modern phenomenon of private libel saw communal scandals creatively couched...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-28
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Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ideas that might in the past have been considered too silly to matter much for serious...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-28
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This book aims to contribute to an understanding of the processes in which law and literature combine in conceptualizing Europe.This can take place with regard to important national and local issues of wider significance, or in the establishment of connections between...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-27
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This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today. Guided by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-27
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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-27
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St Francis and Cultural Memory explores central aspects of English national, spiritual, and broader cultural identity through a detailed yet accessible analysis of a familiar figure: the Franciscan Friar. Covering more than four hundred years from the late fourteenth to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-26
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The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise. Engaging anglophone, francophone, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-26
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This book tells the story of the growth of picturegoing as a popular habit between 1800 and 1914. Encouraged by urbanisation and changes in transportation, education, and leisure patterns, the regular and widespread provision of exhibitions and shows became a defining...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-22
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This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. By conducting close readings of twenty short stories authored by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-21
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In 1277, Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil produced a concise work of accessible religious law. This handbook, 'Amudei Golah (Pillars of Exile), began as a list of religious commandments (mitzvot) meant to be recited weekly. It was divided into seven 'pillars', drawn primarily...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-21
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In der Gegenwartsliteratur zeichnet sich ein Trend ab: Innerdiegetische Brüche, welche die Realität der erzählten Welt in Frage stellen, ohne jedoch einen Genrewechsel zu provozieren, da besagte Brüche nur überaus marginalisiert auftreten.
Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-20
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Contemporary French writers have embarked on various quests for new sources of thematic and formal inspiration which are increasingly tied to issues of postcolonial legacies. However, French literature has never been consistently examined through the lens of race,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-19
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This is an open access book.Research and teaching activities in the fields of language, literature and culture are still being carried out even during the Covid -19 era that hit the world. It is undeniable that the results of research and learning of language,...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-05-19
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The Welsh Marches, a name which today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of 'blue remembered hills'. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-19
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Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature examines late-nineteenth century French understandings of literature as a morally collusive medium, which implicates readers, writers, and critics in risqué or illicit ideas and behaviour. It considers definitions of complicity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-17
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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-16
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Since the publication of his first poetry collection Kargun in 1980, Lionel Fogarty has produced some of the most complex, playful and strident poems written in English, and has been regarded by some as the greatest Aboriginal Australian poet of his generation. While...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-16
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In Thomas Manns Prosa sind Außenseiterfiguren allgegenwärtig. Die Studie begreift sie als transgressive Figuren, die durch ihre außerordentlichen Körper und ihr grenzverletzendes Handeln Normalitätskonstruktionen und Herrschaftsstrukturen der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-16
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