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Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material? Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity shows how the foundational ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-04
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Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-01
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Dieser Open Access-Band dokumentiert die Beiträge des DFG-Symposions 2017 und ist Teil der Reihe der DFG-Symposionsbände. Die Tagung 2017 zum Thema „Digitale Literaturwissenschaft“ behandelte in vier Sektionen die Veränderungen, die das Fach der germanistischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-01
Collection :
Germanistische Symposien
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This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-03-01
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This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence--but also in their capacity to shape readers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-01
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Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century. Taking the work of five key poets as case studies and drawing on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-28
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Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-28
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Es gehört Mut dazu, etwas Neuartiges zu wagen: So gibt es in der Literaturwissenschaft zwar unterschiedliche Methoden, mit Texten umzugehen, aber eine psychologische ist weniger üblich. Dieses Buch nähert sich dem Thema der Selbstliebe, das in der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-02-24
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This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence--but also in their capacity to shape readers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-23
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This edited collection brings together scholars from across the world, including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the USA and India, to offer a truly international perspective on the global reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the 18th century to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-22
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Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.
The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps us to think about some of most pressing problems of the twenty-first century by offering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-22
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'Who would you say knows himself?'
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was one of the circle...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-21
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This study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-20
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Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-15
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Englishes in Africa is an important new edited collection which explores various aspects of English in contemporary Africa. The authors examine the current state of English in eight countries where the language plays a major role: Cameroun, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-10
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Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate withinIrish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives fromIrish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-08
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Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.
The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps us to think about some of most pressing problems of the twenty-first century by offering...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-07
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In Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric, Mara Lee Grayson calls attention to the complicity of academic institutions and the discipline(s) of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-03
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This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University).This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-03
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