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Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejection: An Ode" stands alone inColeridge's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-01-22
Collection :
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
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Günter Grass hat sein Leben lang versucht, Grenzen zu überspringen und profiliert sich seit dem Anfang seiner künstlerischen Laufbahn als provokanter Grenzgänger zwischen zahlreichen ‚Welten‘, ohne diesen eindeutig zuzugehören. Saartje Gobyn zeigt auf, dass Grass auch...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-01-21
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This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-18
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This bold and ambitious volume argues that postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking about history and the relationship between past and present. It shows how the genre's treatment of colonialism illustrates continuities between the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-17
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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-17
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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-17
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-17
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This text provides a key reassessment of the German author Heinrich Heine’s literary status, arguing for his inclusion in the Canon of World Literature. It examines a cross section of Heine’s work in light of this debate, highlighting the elusive and ironic tenor of his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-14
Collection :
Canon and World Literature
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1966 bezeichnete Roland Barthes den Satz „Ich bin tot“ als unmögliche Aussage, denn sie behaupte das radikal Widersprüchliche: Leben und Tod. Der tote Ich-Erzähler in Prosa, der seit den 1950er Jahren Konjunktur hat, macht dieses Paradoxon zum Hauptgegenstand seiner...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-01-14
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This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders—and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas as well as the more well-known works—it comprehensively interrogates...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works inLatinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range ofLatinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of howLatinx literary scholarship...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-09
Collection :
Literatures of the Americas
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This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-07
Collection :
Science and Fiction
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Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
Collection :
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This book examines ‘diversity’, or the lack thereof, in young adult fiction (YA) publishing. It focuses on cultural hegemony in the United Kingdom and explores how literary culture aimed at young adults reproduces and perpetuates ‘racial’ and ethnic cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-04
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