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Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-13
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This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-13
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy.
In thisVery Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-13
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Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-13
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Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-13
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This open access book aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, examples of best practice...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-11
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This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-11
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Die jüngste Vermehrung von Krisenherden und ihren weltweiten Auswirkungen lässt Resilienz als Modewort auftreten. Damit ist keineswegs ein resignativer fatalistischer Umgang mit Krisen gemeint, sondern vielmehr Fähigkeiten und Haltungen, die aktiviert bzw. eingenommen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-08
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Band 90 des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs enthält zwei thematische Blöcke, der erste über den russischen Nihilismus des 19. Jhds («Russian ‹Nihilism› as a Literary Project», hrsg. von Aleksandr Korchinskij und Kirill Zubkov) und der zweite über die Nostalgie als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-08
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'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max PorterIn his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores his deep interest in place and the natural world to excavate the emotional impact of grief and...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2024-03-07
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Juli Zeh verbindet zwei öffentliche Rollen: Sie ist Schriftstellerin und Juristin; sie trägt maßgeblich zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur bei, nimmt aber auch aktiv als ‚public intellectual‘ an öffentlichen Debatten teil. Der vorliegende Band untersucht daher...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-03-06
Collection :
Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality through the interpretation of three works of fiction. In this work, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-06
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The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and ideology, as well as concepts of heroism and anti-heroism. Moreover, it probes the texts’ complex authorship, uncovers their...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-06
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction, written by a large, international team of scholars.The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-05
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus dem Nachlass, gehen seinen Träumen und Phantasien nach, verfolgen seine Spuren als Maler, diskutieren seine Theaterprojekte, erläutern seine Beziehung zur...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-03-01
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Zwischen 1949 und 1989 nahmen Kunstabbildungen in Lesebüchern einen gewichtigen Raum ein. Die Studie untersucht erstmals umfassend, welche Intentionen die Verantwortlichen mit den Abbildungen verfolgten, ob diese ausschließlich zur optischen Aufwertung der Bände dienten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-01
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'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.'
Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-28
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"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-28
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'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.'
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-28
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This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelley, this most nebulous of realities represents, first and foremost, possibility: Shelley’s poetic writings on death are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-27
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