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Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-01
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Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-06-28
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What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-06-28
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This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of other texts —...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of other texts —...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingway’s life and art. This book is a provocative and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the traumatic origins of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-24
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-06-21
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-20
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This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce new...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce new...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words “I” and “self” as suggestive of eight territories of meaning. Via poetry’s lens into language and its limits, Bruce Bond explores the notion of self as identity, volitional agent, ego, existential monad,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-06-18
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This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book offers detailed listings of all the major Shakespeare plays on stage and screen in North America. Exploring each of the play's performance history, including reviews and useful information about staging, it provides an engaging reference guide for academics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
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Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture: Intimate Cartographies demonstrates the ways in which contemporary feminist Irish and diasporic authors, such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Tana French, cross borders literally (in terms of location), ideologically (in terms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
Collection :
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-12
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