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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-06
Collection :
Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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Billy Roche – musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, screenwriter – is one of Ireland’s most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche’s work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-01-03
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"Literarische Autozoographien" erschließt ein größtenteils unbekanntes Textkorpus quasi-autobiographischer Ich-Romane und non-fiktionaler Schriften von Tieren aus einer sowohl gattungstheoretisch als auch kultur- und wissensgeschichtlich informierten Perspektive....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-01-02
Collection :
Cultural Animal Studies
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This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking.This collection of critical essays focuses on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-02
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The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture.
It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture.The book elucidates...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-01-02
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This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory.This is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
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This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-31
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This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-31
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-26
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This book explores ways in which Shakespeare’s writing strategies shape our embodied perception of objects – both real and imaginary – in four of his plays. Taking the reader on a series of perceptual journeys, it engages in an exciting dialogue between the disciplines...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-24
Collection :
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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This book discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises the genre's political, ethical, and aesthetic value. Far-reaching cultural, political, and technological changes during the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
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This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
Collection :
Literatures of the Americas
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Die Adoleszenz ist eine Lebensphase des Übergangs, der Veränderung und des Umbruchs. Diese Prozesse werden in literarischen Darstellungen häufig in Bewegungen durch den Raum übersetzt. Der erzählte Raum ist dabei in seiner Konstruktion und Semantik als komplexer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-12-19
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These essays by critics, theorists and artists explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of ‘negrura-oscuridad’ in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-12-19
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In Probability Designs, Karin Kukkonen proposes a new perspective on the complex role of predictions and probabilities in the dynamics of literary narrative. Predictive processing, an emerging account of cognition in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, provides...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-17
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Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long been imagined as the death of sentimental feeling, modernist literary innovation has been understood to reject...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-17
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Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long been imagined as the death of sentimental feeling, modernist literary innovation has been understood to reject...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-17
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