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This book is a study of female virginity loss and its representations in popular Anglophone literatures. It explores dominant cultural narratives around what makes a “good” female virginity loss experience by examining two key forms of popular literature:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-25
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This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane “run“ ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word “dark“ used to describe modernity is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-25
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This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-25
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The aim of this book is to revisit Ossian, whilst broadening the scope of oral literature and translation to embrace cultural contexts outside of Europe. Epics, ballads, prose tales, ritual and lyric songs, as genres, existed orally before writing was invented. Serious...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-24
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This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-21
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-20
Collection :
New Comparisons in World Literature
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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
Collection :
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Das geistliche Spiel des Mittelalters erfuhr während der Reformationszeit maßgebliche Veränderungen. Dennoch lebten Teile der mittelalterlichen Spieltradition auch in den geistlichen Dramen protestantischer Dramatiker fort, indem sie reflektierten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-18
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Ever since his childhood and adolescence and before he became a legendary poet, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, felt the sense of escaping from the anxieties of his traumatic present to the glorious worlds of Eastern history and mythology. In Eastern mythology,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-17
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The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-16
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The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-16
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Rosa Piñel López es una pionera en la enseñanza, la investigación y la apertura de vías de difusión de la Filología Alemana en todas sus posibles facetas. Con este volumen colectivo, editoras y autores deseamos celebrar todos los vínculos, académicos y personales que...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-14
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In 1930, when Rabindranath Tagore met Paul and Edith Geheeb in Germany, they formed a fruitful and long-term association resulting in the exchange of ideas and vision. Tagore's Brahmacharya Ashram, founded in 1901 in Shantiniketan, and the Geheeb's Odenwaldschule,...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-08-14
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The book builds on current interventions in modernist scholarship in order to rethink Joseph Conrad's contribution to literary history. It utilizes emerging critical modernisms, the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, and late modernist fiction, to stage an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-13
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The book builds on current interventions in modernist scholarship in order to rethink Joseph Conrad's contribution to literary history. It utilizes emerging critical modernisms, the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, and late modernist fiction, to stage an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-13
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This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-11
Collection :
Maritime Literature and Culture
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Nicole Pöppel skizziert in ihrer Literatur- und Mediengeschichte das lebendige, ambivalente Medienschaffen der Pariser Bohème Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Autorin bringt dem deutschsprachigen Publikum die Generation der Bohème näher, durch die sich dieses Milieu...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-08-11
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How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-11
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Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-11
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