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Unter dem Begriff der Multisensorik, also dem Zusammenspiel verschiedener Sinne, hat sich in den letzten Jahren ein neues geisteswissenschaftliches Paradigma etabliert, das in Slavistik und Osteuropastudien jedoch noch kaum erforscht ist. Der Band versammelt literatur-,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-12
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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-11
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ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023BBC POETRY EXTRA 'Book of the Month''Landau's stunning collection Skeletons opens: "So whatever's the opposite of a Buddhist that's what I am", and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends,...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2024-06-06
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While text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic preoccupations. This book upsets that narrative. Examining literary manuscripts from some of the twentieth century's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-01
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Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It argues that working through the full complexity of ‘tragedy’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary ‘settings’. It examines the multifaceted relationships between authors, narrators, and characters to their locales, as well as broader considerations of the significance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey – a set of very different social and cultural landscapes – the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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Romantik und Realismus werden in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung vorwiegend als Gegensätze beschrieben. Ihre Rekonstruktion als dichotome Epochen verstellt aber den Blick auf die Kontinuitäten zwischen den beiden großen Literaturbewegungen des 19. Jahrhunderts, auf...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2024-05-29
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Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-28
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This edited collection offers a reappraisal of character as a precondition for caricature and addresses how the two began to merge, becoming increasingly interlinked over the course of the long eighteenth century. It emphasises the need to understand character more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-28
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This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed examination of the Shelleyan narrative accessible to the Brontës from their childhood to their final novels, this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-26
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This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individualistic movement, with writers believing in the ‘centrality’ of the self. Challenging this prevailing view of Romanticism and the modern self, this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-23
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. ThisVery Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-23
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Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-21
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Cicero's letters have figured prominently in some of western modernity's most cherished illusions about the immediacy of its encounter with Classical antiquity. Celebrated since their discovery in the Renaissance for their intimate mode of self-expression, they have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-14
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What do we mean by ‘dialogue’?What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the author’s production?
This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-13
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A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influencesA History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-05-13
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Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature
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This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together contributions on the debates of the category 'Nature Writing’ by numerous renowned international scholars. It discusses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-11
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This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses. The title originated in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) 2022 conference and marks the 40th onsite event by showcasing some of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-09
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This book examines travel narratives as a medium used by the American public to imagine and negotiate new ways to live in, move through, and share national space. Setting an array of archival material, including congressional deliberations, into analytical conversation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-09
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