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How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance?How can a culture in which theatre played no part in the past create a theatrical tradition in the modern world?How do political and social conditions affect the encounter...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Wir interpretieren nicht nur Texte und haben dafür eine besondere „hermeneutische Kunst“ (Schleiermacher) entwickelt, sondern wir interpretieren auch die Welt um uns. Die Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welche expliziten und impliziten Regeln in der Praxis der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-11-10
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Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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Telegraphies explores literatures envisioning the literary, societal, even the perceived metaphysical effects of various cultures' telecommunications technologies, to argue that nineteenth-century Americans tested in the virtual realm new theories of self, place,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-09
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This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-07
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This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-07
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This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-05
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Florian Nieser zeigt in diesem Buch den interpretatorischen Mehrwert von uneindeutigen Zeichen auf, die Irritationen und Ambivalenzen produzieren. Ausgehend vom Blickwinkel eines ‚informierten‘ zeitgenössischen Rezipienten des Willehalm und der Bataille d’Aliscans...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-11-04
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This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-03
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New Comparisons in World Literature
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Der 57. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält wissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung Heinrich Heines sowie zur Literatur des Vormärz, darunter eine Darstellung von Heines Verhältnis zum Anarchismus von Olaf Briese und Studie über Ludwig Börne von Stephan...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-11-02
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-02
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting a theory on the philosophical definition and importance of the novel as a literary genre. It analyses a variety of individuals whose work is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-02
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This book charts an interdisciplinary narrative of literary pragmatism and creative democracy across the writings of African American women, from the works of nineteenth-century philosophers to the novels and short stories of Harlem Renaissance authors. The book argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-02
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-01
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This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-01
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'Required reading.' - CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the...
Editeur :
Trapeze
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2018-11-01
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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster investigates the active role of music in film and fiction portraying climate crisis. From contemporary science fiction and environmental film to “Anthropocene opera,” the most arresting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-31
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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"Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie" (1901) legte den Grundstein für Thomas Manns außergewöhnliche Karriere als Schriftsteller und Repräsentant der deutschen Literatur und Kultur weltweit. Der Roman zählt nicht nur zu den nobelpreisgekrönten und meistgelesenen, sondern...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-30
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Christian Volkmann präsentiert den im 19. Jahrhundert überaus erfolgreichen und prominenten Schriftsteller Emanuel Geibel als einen modernen, marktorientierten Autor, der zielorientiert an seiner Karriere und seinem Image arbeitete. Die Studie bricht das scheinbar...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-30
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This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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