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Sebastiano Vassalli (1941–2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. His vast cast of characters includes a prototypical fascist father, a terrorist son, a Carmelite nun, Virgil and other literary giants,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-10
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Kurt Vonnegut: Myth and Science in the Postmodern World attempts to understand, in Vonnegut’s novels, how Darwin’s theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-08-10
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As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed. Through twelvethought-provoking, scholarly essays,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-10
Collection :
Italian and Italian American Studies
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Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung des Zentrums für Osteuropa-Studien an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, in denen aus fachlich sehr verschiedenen Perspektiven Geschlechterrollen im östlichen Europa in den Blick genommen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-08-07
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This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-07
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'Beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality - and often the brutality - of American speech' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker'Shane McCrae is one of our best, a great poet who mines the rhythms and...
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Corsair
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2020-08-06
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation' Garth Greenwell'Shane McCrae is...
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Corsair
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2020-08-06
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This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-06
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This edited collection of essays brings together discussions on the role,representation and perception of women from the early 1900s to the present day. Each of the chapters is strong on the diverse ways in which gender and radical discrimination are rooted within...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-06
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While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-06
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While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-06
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Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom. While memoirists...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-06
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Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom. While memoirists...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-06
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In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legaciesof past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people. Werealize anew how imperialism, globalization, industrialization, and revolutioncontinue to reshape our world...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-05
Collection :
Literary Cultures and Childhoods
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This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-08-04
Collection :
Critical South
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Polnische und österreichische Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren aus historischer und literatur- bzw. kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht die Auswirkungen des Ersten Weltkriegs auf die Gesellschaften ihrer Länder sowie der ganzen Region. Neben literarischen Texten werden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-03
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Zu Schlegels Zeit war die Wendung ‚mit jemandem einen Roman spielen‘ eine Redensart, die auf den Anfang einer Liebschaft hinwies. Der Terminus romantisch hat sich in der Folge so etabliert, dass er in die Literaturwissenschaft und Standardsprache Eingang gefunden hat....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-03
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Failure as a pervasive occurrence in life has rarely been investigated by sociology, even though the collapse of plans, unattainability of goals and breakdown of vital relationships are ordinary experiences. The study of early-21st-century fiction reveals that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-03
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At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-03
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At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-03
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