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Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s 'Adab-E-Zareen', an innovative mystical poetic
work, replete with symbology, philosophy, and metaphor, is translated
from the Urdu for the first time in book form by celebrated English
language poet Sascha A. Akhtar. Written in 1936 by this...
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OUP India
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2023-04-13
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-12
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This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollion’s success in understanding hieroglyphs, first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-11
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How do people with and without disabilities work together in the artistic process? This volume is a compilation of 14 interviews with directors and producers of European feature films that enriches the understanding of interabled dynamics in creative ventures. It...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-04-06
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This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium. Presenting Anzaldúa...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels.
The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-05
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Diese Studie befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Identitätskonzepten im Werk von Michael Ende, vor allem mit Patchwork- und Geschlechtsidentitäten, kulturellen und hybriden Identitäten. Es wird gezeigt, wie die Figuren Identitäten konstruieren, welche Faktoren,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-03
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Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Literatur hat nicht selten Recht als ihren Gegenstand, und Recht regelt Literatur auf vielfältige Weise. Diese gegenseitige Vergegenständlichung, zusammengefasst unter dem Begriff der „Materialität“, geschieht in verschiedenen Formen und erfüllt unterschiedliche...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-03
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The book demonstrates an evidence-based approach to online memory practices of World War II. Network analysis is applied to reduce a massive and unreadable dataset of forum texts and user relations. Further, the results are combined with other text analysis methods,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-31
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In dem vorliegenden Buch wird untersucht, auf welche Weise Rilkes religiöse Erfahrungen einen ästhetischen Ausdruck in seinem Werk finden und wie diese Motive literarisch verarbeitet werden. Die Autorin beschäftigt sich eingehend mit den in Rilkes Werk auftauchenden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-31
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The artist novel occupies a prominent place in literary history. Although research into this genre, which is usually perceived as especially rigid, may seem to be exhausted at a first glance, a closer look at the development of the artist novel reveals its sheer...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-31
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Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-30
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This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins with this recognition and posits translation as fundamental to any understanding of the Gita's reception. It examines in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-30
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A renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alternative reality, Middle Earth, and populated it with hobbits, orcs,...
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OH
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2023-03-30
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Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his rivals and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-29
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The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated.The popularity of the Arabian Nights andThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-29
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This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-27
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2024 Ming Chuan University Research Award
This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-25
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Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in nineteenth-century novels.
The reform of married women's property law between 1856 and 1882 constituted one of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-25
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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-24
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