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This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
Collection :
Literatures of the Americas
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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
Parution :
2019-01-04
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Shedding new light on the history of the book in antiquity, Empire of Letters tells the story of writing at Rome at the pivotal moment of transition from Republic to Empire (c. 55 BCE-15 CE). By uniting close readings of the period's major authors with detailed analysis...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-03
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In den literaturwissenschaftlichen Debatten über den Begriff der ‚politischen Literatur‘ dominierte bislang eine oftmals polemische Entgegensetzung von ‚ästhetischer Autonomie‘ und ‚Engagement‘, von ‚reiner Kunst‘ und ‚Tendenzliteratur‘, von Poesie und Politik. Dieser...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-31
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-31
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This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
Literary Cultures and Childhoods
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This book explores the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies and their fluid transformation from the Romantic to the Victorian period and beyond, exposing how these cultural constructions are deeply entangled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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
Parution :
2018-12-20
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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 :
2018-12-20
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Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks – literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context. In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-14
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to be an important part of literary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-12-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the value...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics of making books...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary public history’s engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the conflict,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-12-12
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This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on two new concepts: numerical scale and consistency-driven methodology. The numerical scale model provides a unified framework to connect different linguistic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
Collection :
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-07
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