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Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-20
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This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Die Studie analysiert ausgewählte deutschsprachige Satiren, die Figuren des Narren enthalten und den Zeitraum vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert widerspiegeln. Dadurch sollen der Forschung neue Vorschläge gemacht werden, wie die Satire erfasst werden kann.Die Untersuchung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-15
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The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-14
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This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth’s representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character – one that she invites...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-14
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In seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird. Dabei widmet er sich der Erschließung einer Poetik...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-14
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'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths'
- Bertrand Russell
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-13
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Im Zentrum des Sammelbandes steht das produktive Spannungs- und Beeinflussungsverhältnis von Schriftlichkeiten und Mündlichkeiten in Kinder- und Jugendmedien. Obwohl mündliches und schriftliches Erzählen kategorial anders verlaufen, sind auch die buch- und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-11
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Whether we are touched by the 2015 migrant crisis in the Mediterranean or the heated debates about the status of the (260+ million) displaced persons in our different societies, all of us have been affected by the «age of migration.» Marco Micone’s hybrid text, which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-07
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The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today.The very limited number of female authors in earlier...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-07
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Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-10-06
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This book shows how authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and of reading, drawing, and handicraft) for inspiration and creative composition. In doing so, it reshapes the sensory history of working on and with paper. These activities were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-06
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This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and moves beyond,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-06
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How many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free. Universities are profoundly conservative places, designed to favour a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-06
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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
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2022-10-06
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Zentraler Gegenstand dieses Buchs ist die Figur des wandernden Juden Ahasver, die 1602 im Flugblatt der Kurzen Beschreibung eingeführt wurde, später zahlreiche literarische Werke inspiriert hat und zum Mythos wurde. Aus figurentheoretischer und rezeptionstheoretischer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-03
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Entstehungsgeschichte und Funktion der Hamburger Zeitschrift in der Frühen Neuzeit. Anhand eines Close Reading-Verfahrens werden mehr als 30 zum Teil noch nie analysierte Periodika der Epoche hinsichtlich ihres Aufklärungspotenzials...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-30
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«Murderous Mothers is both an homage to and a critical reflection on the multiple Medea figures that populate late twentieth-century German literature. Claire Scott artfully demonstrates how feminist politics and women’s issues – from abstract questions about the power...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-30
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