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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-22
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This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas – ideas that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-21
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Henrik Ibsen's plays have long beguiled philosophically-oriented readers. From Nietzsche to Adorno to Cavell, philosophers have drawn inspiration from Ibsen. But what of Ibsen's own philosophical orientation? As part of larger European movements to reinvent drama, Ibsen...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-20
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Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-19
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Lewis Carrolls Alice-Bücher gehören zu den Klassikern der Kinderliteratur. Die Nonsense-Erzählungen wurden immer wieder neu interpretiert und vielfach für Theater, Kino und Fernsehen adaptiert; sie inspirierten Avantgarde-Bewegungen wie Dada und Surrealismus. Denn die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-19
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This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written “after the wreck,” they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-19
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Nur wenige deutsche Dichter erfahren eine ähnlich starke Aufmerksamkeit bis in die jüngste Gegenwart wie Friedrich Hölderlin. Das Handbuch, seit vielen Jahren das Standardwerk zur Hölderlin-Forschung, informiert in der Neuauflage detailliert über den aktuellen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-19
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Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Daniela Theinová explores the works of well-known...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-18
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New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-15
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Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-15
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-15
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-15
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This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-14
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Es gibt eine Vorgeschichte des Ehebruchromans, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem gesamteuropäischen literarischen Paradigma wurde. Im Zuge der Französischen Revolution entsteht eine säkulare Ehegesetzgebung, die einen metaphorischen Überschuss...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today. From Aristotle onward, theatre has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studiesJewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studiesJewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-13
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