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Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking different theoretical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-26
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Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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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
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2018-10-26
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Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-25
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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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2018-10-25
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Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-24
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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) klingt in aktuellen Debatten oft abstrakt und alltagsfremd. Doch die meisten Internetnutzerinnern und -nutzer sind bereits täglich mit ihr konfrontiert – wenn...
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Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2018-10-23
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This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of “place” in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that “place” is an important critical category through which to understand this classic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-23
Collection :
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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Zentraler Bestandteil der Erinnerungsdiskurse zum Ersten Weltkrieg sind jene Romane, Gedichte oder – historisch besonders wirkmächtig – Theaterstücke, die sich mit dem Kriegsgeschehen und dessen Auswirkungen auseinandersetzen. Der Band konzentriert sich auf die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-22
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion are some of the greatest tales of good versus evil ever told. From the creation of Arda to the War of the Ring, Tolkien's Middle-earth has seen war and rebellion, devastation and loss, in which the...
Editeur :
Pyramid
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2018-10-18
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Tolkien
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Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-18
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God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-18
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The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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Home Rule became a leading issue from the 1870s across the British Isles. Aspirations to limited legislative autonomy were notably strong in Ireland, where aHome Rule party progressively emerged and came to play a major role on the island and at Westminster. While the...
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BELIN EDUCATION
Parution :
2018-10-17
Collection :
Belin CNED
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George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize, the Orwell Lecture, and, more recently, Orwell Day. A statue of Orwell now stands outside Broadcasting House in London and he continues to tower over...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-17
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In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-17
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Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-17
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