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Early modern private prayer is skilled at narrative and drama. In manuals and sermons on how to pray, collections of model prayers, scholarly treatises about biblical petitions, and popular tracts about life crises prompting calls to God, prayer is valued as a powerful...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-04
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How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers' lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context for and target of textual interpretation—begin to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of author...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-03
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The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-03
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How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers' lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context for and target of textual interpretation—begin to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of author...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-03
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The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-03
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THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-09-03
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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In diesem Buch widmet sich Lena Scheidig der Darstellung der Stadt Prag in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie versucht zu ergründen, wie der (literarische) Mythos einer „magischen“ Stadt entstanden ist – ein Mythos, der auch über die Literatur hinaus zu einem...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-09-02
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What are Monsters?
Monsters are everywhere, from cyberbullies online to vampires onscreen: the twenty-first century is a monstrous age. The root of the word «monster» means «omen» or «warning», and if monsters frighten us, it’s because they are here to warn us about...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-02
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The essays in this volume engage with questions concerning the relationships between fictional texts and environmental issues in their various articulations, and offer critical readings that display the theoretical diversity in the current reconsiderations of the place...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-31
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This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-29
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Das Anna Seghers-Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gesamtwerk der Autorin von den frühen Texten und Erzählungen der 1920er Jahre bis zu ihrem Tod im Jahr 1983. Im Zentrum stehen neben der Betrachtung ihres Lebens als Jahrhundertschicksal die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-08-27
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This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psychogeography', offering new insights to key works including London, The Rings of Saturn, and Lights Out for the Territory....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-27
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This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psychogeography', offering new insights to key works including London, The Rings of Saturn, and Lights Out for the Territory....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-27
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The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west. By examining some early poetic understandings of what it might have meant to be Vergil, Ovid, and Tibullus, Constructing Authors and Readers in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-27
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The Augustan period in Rome was a golden age for poetry, and also the age in which the cult of the author began in the west. By examining some early poetic understandings of what it might have meant to be Vergil, Ovid, and Tibullus, Constructing Authors and Readers in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-27
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Die mittelalterliche Literatur zeigt sich erst bei genauerem Hinsehen quer durch alle Gattungen geprägt von Sprachbildern aus dem Nahrungsbereich.Die dazu nun vorgelegte motivgeschichtliche Studie stützt sich für die Erforschung dieses Feldes nicht nur auf Quellen zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-27
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Die vorliegende Studie befaßt sich mit Goethes Werk und Wirken in Weimar und fragt nach der Relevanz, die der Freimaurerei für eine Deutung der darin enthaltenen Lebensspuren zukommt. Wie umfassend Goethe bestrebt war, seine Lebenswelt mit einem dichten System von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-26
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This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessingboth canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-26
Collection :
British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-25
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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