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This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural narratives have long...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-03
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Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-02
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Diese Monographie leistet einen erkenntnisreichen und vielfach anschlussfähigen Beitrag zur Osterweiterung der Komparatistik, genauer zur komparatistischen Forschungsdiskussion über die moderne Lyrik, indem sie ein Desiderat füllt. Mittels ihrer doppelten Suche, nach...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-03-29
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Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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This book examines how in navigating Hong Kong’s colonial history alongside its ever-present Chinese identity, the city has come to manifest a conflicting socio-cultural plurality. Drawing together scholars, critics, commentators, and creators on the vanguard of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
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This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy’s oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-22
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-22
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This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-21
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We live in a psychological age. Contemporary culture is saturated with psychological concepts and ideas, from anxiety to narcissism to trauma. While it might seem that concern over psychological conditions and challenges is intrinsically oriented toward moral questions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-21
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This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study—i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation—and as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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Modernist Physics takes as its focus the ideas associated with three scientific papers published by Albert Einstein in 1905, considering the dissemination of those ideas both within and beyond the scientific field, and exploring the manifestation of similar ideas in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-16
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Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-16
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Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-16
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The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-16
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This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-16
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This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-03-15
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An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise and highly...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-03-14
Collection :
Reading the Novel
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This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-13
Collection :
Literatures of the Americas
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Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-12
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