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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly introduces the novel's core...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-24
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This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-23
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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This book studies a selection of works of Philippine literature written in Spanish during the American occupation of the Philippines (1902-1946). It explores the place of Filipino nationalism in a selection of fiction and non-fiction texts by Spanish-speaking Filipino...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-23
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-22
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-22
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The dangers of political violence and the possibilities of non-violence were the central themes of three lives which changed the twentieth century--Leo Tolstoy, writer and aristocrat who turned against his class, Mohandas Gandhi who corresponded with Tolstoy and...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-21
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The dangers of political violence and the possibilities of non-violence were the central themes of three lives which changed the twentieth century--Leo Tolstoy, writer and aristocrat who turned against his class, Mohandas Gandhi who corresponded with Tolstoy and...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-21
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Diese erste chinesisch-deutsche Bibliographie erfasst die gesamte chinesische Hölderlin-Literatur seit Beginn der dortigen Rezeption vor mehr als 100 Jahren bis heute. Neben einer ausführlichen Einführung in die chinesische Kulturtradition und in die Geschichte der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-07-17
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-17
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Das Unheimliche (oder auch das Verdrängte, nach Freud) fördert eine tiefere Einsicht in die uns umgebende Realität und somit eine Reflexion, die der herrschenden Akzeleration des Alltags, der Oberflächlichkeit, dem Narzissmus und Hedonismus unserer Gesellschaft...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-16
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Ingeborg Bachmann ist heute eine moderne Klassikerin der deutschsprachigen Literatur und eine Schlüsselfigur im literarischen Leben der Nachkriegsjahrzehnte, deren Wirkung bis in die Gegenwart ausstrahlt. Auf der Grundlage des aktuellen Forschungsstands gibt das...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-07-14
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This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalam) and jurisprudence (u?ul al-fiqh) from the tenth through the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-07-13
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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Die Erforschung der frühneuzeitlichen Zensur ist nach wie vor ein Desiderat. Fragen nach ihrer theoretisch-begrifflichen Diskursivierung, ihrer praktischen Umsetzung und Effizienz sind von der Forschung bislang weder umfassend noch systematisch beantwortet worden. Der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-13
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This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-13
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Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. TransamericanSentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-11
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Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. TransamericanSentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-11
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This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern 'etymological poetry' that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly. Close readings of poetry and criticism by Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-10
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This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern 'etymological poetry' that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly. Close readings of poetry and criticism by Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-10
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The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature is an unprecedented comparative study of postmodern Chinese literature and continental European modernism. This book deconstructs and reconstructs central works of post-1976 Chinese literature and the main texts of European...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-10
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