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This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-14
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Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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"Wer je die flamme umschritt, / bleibe der flamme trabant": Es gibt wohl kaum jemanden in der historischen Jugendbewegung, den diese Verse Stefan Georges nicht gepackt hätten. Oft schon wurde der große Einfluss Georges auf die Jugendbewegung behauptet, nie hat man ihn...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-10
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and an array of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-09
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Redolent of the briny air of the sea and the lore of the seashore, Ocean Rimmed World captures the struggles and changing fortunes of the Parathavars of the Tuticorin coast—a community of seafarers and fisherfolk renowned for their courage, relentless toil, and...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published. Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about service with the British...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
Collection :
New Caribbean Studies
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This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-03
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This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-03
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Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
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This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce’s non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-02
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Hegel's philosophy has been of fundamental importance for the development of contemporary thought and for the very representation of Western modernity. This book investigates Hegel’s influence in the Arab world, generally considered "other" and far from the West,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-02
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This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-28
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This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-27
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