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Außenseiterfiguren sind in der Filmgeschichte omnipräsent, das gilt besonders für die Geschichte des Jugendfilms. Die Forschung hat sich mit diesem Phänomen bislang allerdings nur am Rande beschäftigt. Diese Lücke schließt das vorliegende Buch: Es arbeitet zunächst...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Playing Shakespeare’s Beautiful People is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of "beauty" found in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critical literary analyses. Issues as challenging as race, gender, sex, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-30
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Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-30
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This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-27
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Narrative sind immer schon Grundbestand der menschlichen, kulturellen, sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Verständigungshorizonte. Der Band Erzählhorizonte widmet sich der Auseinandersetzung mit möglichen Formen einer narrativen Ethik, indem aus inter- und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-27
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This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic features and then discusses them according to the literary genre, for the literature of each era.This book gathers established...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-26
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Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alternative to existing models of animals as symbols of Canadian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-25
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Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world literature. This volume presents the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3, the last collection of love poems composed in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-25
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Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-24
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The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-24
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-24
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This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms – including the personal essay and memoir – and ethical questions that arise in relation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-23
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The Testing of Barbara Pym, a companion volume to The Making of Barbara Pym (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a comprehensive analysis of Pym’s novels and her life, focusing on her complex view of the necessity of change at both the individual and cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-23
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The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-23
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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-22
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This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-21
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A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable, and that every character can be seen as being both endorsed and critiqued by the text. This is manifested especially in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-21
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This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of theU.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the connection between the genderedness ofmaterial practice and White masculinity concepts in the U.S.-American mainstream.The examination of the construct...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-18
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Mit seinem Geschichtsromanzyklus "Amazonas", dessen Handlung eine Zeitspanne von rund Vierjahrhunderten umfasst – von den Ereignissen rund um die Eroberung Südamerikas im 16. Jahrhundert bis hin zu der Zeit des pränationalsozialistischen Deutschlands –, führt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-17
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Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery, allusion, rhythm and style, the Bible is central to how poetry has both shaped and been shaped by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-16
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