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Das Werk Georg Trakls (1887-1914) ist ebenso schmal wie bedeutend. Er gilt als Klassiker der Moderne und seine Gedichte gehören zum Kanon auch in Universität und Schule. Gleichwohl hat die Hermetik seiner Dichtung zu vielen offenen Forschungsfragen geführt.Das Handbuch...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-16
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This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention is devoted to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-14
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This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad’s works, a pattern emerges where Western space is associated with sound and non-Western space is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-12
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Nicht nur die Zeit des Menschen, auch die Eigenzeiten der Literatur stehen heute in einem vielschichtigen Spannungsverhältnis zur Zeit der Natur. Doch welche Mittel besitzt die Literatur, um die menschliche Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit für die Zeiten anderer Lebewesen oder gar...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-12
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LiLi: Studien zu Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
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This is the first study to examine the intersections of Indigenous scholarship, theories of New Materialism and Native American fiction regarding the Anthropocene future. The book discusses selected speculative fiction novels by North American Indigenous female writers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-10-11
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This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict and confront Ireland’s colonial situation in the nineteenth century.This study provides an innovative approach by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-09
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This book explores the tension between the conservatism and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard Kipling’s fiction. It shows how Kipling the conservative thinker explores problematic aspects of Empire and the English class-system, both because...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-09
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This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges. It sheds a new light on “May Fourth” and on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-06
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This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-05
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A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry' Jorie Graham'Full of delicate and muscular...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-10-05
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AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new...
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Corsair
Parution :
2023-10-05
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-05
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-05
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Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple subgenres in terms of their assumed inherent political value. By drawing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-04
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Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds explores cultural and historical aspects of the representation of plants in Australian children’s and young adult literature, encompassing colonial, postcolonial, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-04
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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-04
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The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-04
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Erich Kästner (1899-1974) ist einer der international meistgelesenen deutschsprachigen Autoren. Seine Lyrik, seine Romane für Erwachsene und vor allem seine Bücher für Kinder waren bereits in der Weimarer Republik berühmt und einflussreich, ebenso seine...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-03
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The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial examinations in Ming China, breaking through the paradigm of pure literature research. This book presents an important...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-03
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) ist eine zentrale Figur der europäischen Aufklärung. Das Handbuch stellt seine Arbeiten in den Bereichen der Poetik, Rhetorik, Philosophie und Sprachforschung dar. Die Poetik erschließt sich mit Blick auf Gattungsdifferenzierungen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-10-03
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