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Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-08-09
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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-09
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Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-08
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This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-08
Collection :
Reproducing Shakespeare
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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-08-08
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This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was a major precursor of W.B. Yeats (1865 – 1939), and shows how Wilde’s image and intellect set in train a powerful influence within Yeats’s creative imagination that remained active throughout the poet’s life. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
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Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
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This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-02
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Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
Collection :
British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940
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Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher. This collection offers a sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
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This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing. It focuses on how literature is ideally suited to expressions and understanding of the nature of loss, given its ability to access and express emotions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-30
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of ‘mother-tongue” as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-28
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This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-28
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays discuss texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and bear witness...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-07-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-27
Collection :
Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
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Explores the challenges of maintaining bonds, living up to ideals, and fulfilling desire in Shakespeare’s plays In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2018-07-27
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-26
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