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This volume explores ‘the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge’ (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and legacy. Major entries cover...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-25
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Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with JaneAusten in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen’s popular appeal and at how she is consumed today in diverse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-24
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Leben und Werk der Drehbuchautorin Thea von Harbou stehen im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Studie, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf ihrem kulturpolitischen und ideologischen Wirken während des Dritten Reichs liegt. Der Text zeichnet ihren Werdegang als Verfasserin von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress.This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is informed by a comprehensive analysis of the entire tradition of Lucullus and Academicus Primus, and by a thorough rethinking of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-17
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This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period’s receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and twenty-first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-17
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This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saiko (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and Natsume Soseki (1867–1916) – experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin)...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-17
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The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-15
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Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Reading Shakespeare’s Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare’s poems and how they speak to readersReading Shakespeare’s Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poems, providing insights into the individual poems, their themes and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-12
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Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography ofConstance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-12
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This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-11
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This book looks at Margaret Atwood’s use of food motifs in speculative fiction. Focusing on six novels – The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, the Maddaddam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last – Katarina Labudova explores the environmental, ecological, and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-10
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-10
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