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This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world’s most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-24
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This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-24
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The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This volume joins the growing field of nature-centred studies of literature,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-24
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The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This volume joins the growing field of nature-centred studies of literature,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-24
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‘Facts alone are wanted in life,’ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens’ Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and – despite two and a half thousand years of arguments – no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-23
Collection :
Why It Matters
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Der Eröffnungsband der neuen Reihe „Studien zu Literatur und Religion / Studies on Literature and Religion“ bilanziert das seit einigen Jahren wieder spürbar gewachsene Forschungsinteresse an Religion und Literatur und erörtert an konkreten Beispielen und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-07-23
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This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-18
Collection :
Studies in Global Science Fiction
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Angesichts enormer digitaler Vernetzungen, die den Informationsfluss im Radius (a)sozialer Netzwerke wie in seiner Aktualität beträchtlich erhöhen, und gesellschaftlich einschneidender Krisen erweist sich heutzutage gerade die engagierte Literatur verstärkt als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-18
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Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-17
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Preußen als Nationalstaat, als Kulturstaat, als Militärmacht: Jenseits dieser eindimensionalen Vorstellungen entfaltet das neue Buch von Ottmar Ette das Bild eines vielperspektivischen Preußen. Von Anton Wilhelm Amo, der sich als erster schwarzer Philosoph an einer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-07-15
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Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital addresses the relationship between an upsurge in collective political practice around the world since 2000, and the crystallization of newly engaged forms of poetry. Considering an array of perspectives—poets, poet-critics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-12
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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Der vorliegende Sammelband präsentiert die Beiträge des 15. Treffens des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft (JFSL), das 2017 an der Universität Hamburg stattfand.Der Band bietet entlang der thematischen Leitbegriffe Zwischenzeiten, Zwischenräume,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-10
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This scholarly edition of Thomas Dekker, John Marston, John Day, and William Haughton’s Lust’s Dominion; or, the Lascivious Queen (ca. 1598-1600) is the first in half a century and the first ever translation into Spanish. The comprehensive introduction in English and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-10
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Plebeian Prose is a key work by the pioneering Argentine Brazilian anthropologist, sociologist and poet Néstor Perlongher. Perlongher, whose work has been highly influential in the development of Latin American cultural theory and literature, represents an original...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-09
Collection :
Critical South
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This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced to this day in the Amazonian region. Amazonian thinking, in dialogue with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-09
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Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism, and the pursuit of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-05
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The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-04
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The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-04
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Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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This book is a critical study of the translation and adaptation of popular fiction into Arabic at the turn of the twentieth century. It examines the ways in which the Egyptian nahda discourse with its emphasis on identity, authenticity and renaissance suppressed various...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-01
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