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Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-13
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In Dryden's writing, enthusiasm is a source of literary authority. It signals divinely inspired literary creativity. It is central to Dryden's theoretical defences of the relationship between literature and the passions. It is also crucial to his poetic practice in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-13
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Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2018-02-13
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Joe Bray’s careful analysis of Jane Austen’s stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer. Countering those who have detected in her...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
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This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
Collection :
African Histories and Modernities
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This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
Collection :
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
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Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-09
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Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-09
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The theo-political idea of covenant—a sacred binding agreement—formalizes relationships and inaugurates politics in the Hebrew Bible, and it was the most significant revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation. Central to sixteenth-century...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-09
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This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-08
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This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-07
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Robert Walser gilt heute als einer der wichtigsten Prosa-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl er mit seinen Romanen »Geschwister Tanner«, »Der Gehülfe« und »Jakob von Gunten« in Literatenkreisen früh eine gewisse Bekanntheit erwarb, bewegte sich Walser Zeit seines...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-05
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This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
Collection :
The New Antiquity
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
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Was leistet die Literaturwissenschaft, wie liest man Texte, welche Leitlinien und Überzeugungen liegen Interpretationen zugrunde? Dieser Frage wird anhand der faszinierenden Rezeptionsgeschichte von Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Die Judenbuche (1842) nachgegangen. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-03
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-02
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This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf. Casting them as spaces which are at once material, textual and emotional, the volume shows Woolf’s rooms to be consistently connected to wider geographies of modernity and therefore...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-01
Collection :
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer visibility of 'the Turk' in plays staged between 1567 and 1642 has tended to be interpreted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-01
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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