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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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2018-10-17
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One hundred creative, intelligent, and interesting women--some well-known, some not--reveal their inner selves through candid, tender, and often humorous snapshots--both visual and textual--of a single object or corner of their bathroom. For many women, the bathroom is...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2018-10-16
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Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-15
Collection :
Studies in Global Science Fiction
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Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt’s Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed atheist (1921–1990), and offers new insights into the ways in which his...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2018-10-15
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From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Which individuals and institutions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-15
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Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on “Eroticism and Form” and “Temporality and Affect,” essays in this volume read Milton’s works through radical queer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-15
Collection :
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
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This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-12
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This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where the relationships between the individual subject and the social identities of race, class and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-11
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This collection of essays represents new scholarly work on John Webster’s great tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi. The critical methodologies range from historical contexts to feminist readings of agency and identity, to social analyses of Jacobean culture. The play has...
Editeur :
BELIN EDUCATION
Parution :
2018-10-10
Collection :
Belin CNED
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This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-10
Collection :
Crime Files
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This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-10
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Auf Basis des Ecocriticism analysiert der Band literarische Repräsentationen des Umweltwandels im 20./21. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum stehen die engen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch und Umwelt sowie die Frage nach ästhetischen Möglichkeiten einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2018-10-08
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Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ‘Homo Economicus’ provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure’s significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period. Beginning with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
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Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's something marvellous in the realisation that one of the most beautiful and longest-lasting cures has been here all along - on the...
Editeur :
Yellow Kite
Parution :
2018-10-04
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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What has Emma Woodhouse, "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and very little to distress or vex her" to say to a discipline like philosophy? How is a novel like Emma, inaccurately but not infrequently caricatured as a high-toned version of a pedestrian...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-04
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This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ‘diverging’ from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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This book is about Africa in the postcolonial trend of thinking and mutual representations of peoples of different cultures. From a literary approach and culture-based illustrations, the essay explores postcolonial ideas, realities and discourses in African letters and...
Editeur :
Les Impliqués
Parution :
2018-10-02
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