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This book is a journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of fairy tale’s most iconic images are items of dress: the glass slippers, the red capes, the gowns...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-06
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This book argues that there are deep connections between ‘poetic’ thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Les Murray. Through a series of close...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-05
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.
This volume offers an overview of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-04
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This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith’sModern Love, Jane Hedley’s study utilizes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-04
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Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections with London. It explores Stratford's various links with the capital, significant locations for Shakespeare's work, people...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-29
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst teaching: August 2017First exams: Summer 2018Introduce, develop, test and reinforce the skills required for success in National 4 & 5 English.Fully updated in accordance with the revised N5 specification, this Second...
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Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2018-05-28
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This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-25
Collection :
Studies in Global Science Fiction
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This book examines postmodern parody in Latin American literature as the intersection between ideology construction and deconstruction. Parody’s chief task is to deconstruct and criticize the ideologies behind previous texts. During this process, new ideologies are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-24
Collection :
Literatures of the Americas
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This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-23
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This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-22
Collection :
Literatures of the Americas
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Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-22
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This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-19
Collection :
Palgrave Gothic
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Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated...
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Polity
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2018-05-18
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Die Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle das Erinnern in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 und sodann nach dem Umbruch des Jahres 1989 spielt. Dabei werden unterschiedlich Formen der literarischen Konfiguration von Erinnerung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-17
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This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The book argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalization, and social matters gained are well-received. While mapping the genre, this monograph shows literary developments in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-14
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