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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-13
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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
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2024-02-13
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The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Paired with the common misconception...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-12
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There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-08
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National Review's Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'sNational Review. In the 1950s, the magazine sought to establish itself as a conservative alternative to liberal journals like...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-07
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Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Europe by African writers: Présence Africaine, launched in Paris in 1947, and Mensagem, published between 1948 and 1964 in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-07
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The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics—tools for living developed in poetry—to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-07
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The volume is a tribute to Aza Alibekovna Takho-Godi by the former students, colleagues, and friends to commemorate her 100th birthday. It contains biographical essays on Aza Alibekovna; essays on ancient Greek literature; ancient Greek philosophy; ancient Greek...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-07
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This book challenges narratives of one-directional cultural flows from Europe to the Americas. The essays’ varied topics and methods map a richly innovative Spanish-American imaginary emerging through multidirectional transatlantic and Pan-American axes of influence in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-02-05
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This book focuses on exploring and reconstructing teachers’ perspectives of critical literacies comparatively. More specifically, the book highlights similarities and differences in the way teachers from Canada, Scotland and Finland think of the definition and...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-02-03
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Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachvermittlung: LiKuS
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Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-02
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With multidisciplinary examination, this book explores Waiting for Visa, Ambedkar's autobiographical writing. This investigation ranges from Dalit Studies to Discourse analysis. It aims to provide the reader with in-depth knowledge of Ambedkar's unexplored...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-01
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses orThe Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-01
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This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field.
Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-01
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The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections between the 'First and Last of the New Worlds': Australia and the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-31
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Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-31
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Ricardo Piglias Kriminalromane haben das Genre kritisch beleuchtet und erneuert. Die Untersuchung kapitalismus- und erkenntniskritischer Perspektiven in Plata quemada, Blanco nocturno und El camino de Ida verbindet literaturtheoretische mit -historischen Reflexionen....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-01-31
Collection :
Kriminalität in Literatur und Medien
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Campus Fictions argues that the academic novel balances utopian and regressive tendencies, reinforcing the crises we face in higher learning while simultaneously signposting hope for a worn institution. Whether a bestseller such as Erich Segal ’s romance Love...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-31
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Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-30
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Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions with nature on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-29
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