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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-11-09
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Critical South
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Als Autor von weltliterarischem Rang hat Arthur Schnitzler die Epoche der Klassischen Moderne literarisch äußerst produktiv und mit hochgradiger Sensibilität für ihre Probleme und Widersprüche begleitet. Sein Werk weist eine enorme motivische Bandbreite auf und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2022-11-09
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Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major...
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Polity
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2022-11-08
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This handbook brings together recent international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary fields of digital and public humanities. Exploring key concepts, theories, practices and debates within both the digital and public humanities, the handbook also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Das Buch untersucht E.T.A. Hoffmanns Roman Die Elixiere des Teufels. Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus eines Capuziners mit dreifacher Zielsetzung: Zum Ersten präzisiert es anhand einer eingehenden textnahen Lektüre das gängige Verständnis des Texts in mehreren...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-11-03
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HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people:...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-11-03
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This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept. The author...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-02
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This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s.
Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen’s narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work. It grounds her writing in the Enlightenment philosophy of selfhood, exploring how Austen...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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Shibata Renzaburo and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work ofShibata Renzaburo (?????, 1917–1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-30
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Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-27
Collection :
Critical South
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Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-26
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The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-26
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Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästhetisch autonom. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2022-10-21
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Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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This book conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Franz Kafka’s relation to China. Commencing with an examination of the myriad Chinese cultural influences to which Kafka was exposed, it goes on to explore the ways in which they manifest themselves in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-20
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José Saramago, one of the most critically acclaimed writers worldwide, was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. This honour, the first to be bestowed on a Portuguese-language writer, marked one of the high points in a long and manifold career....
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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