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Das Strafrecht der frühen Neuzeit erfährt zwischen dem beginnenden 17. und dem späten 18. Jahrhundert in Theorie und Praxis grundstürzende Veränderungen. Vor allem im Zuge der Aufklärung wird es entschärft, rationalisiert und teilweise humanisiert. Diese Prozesse werden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-06-02
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A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
Collection :
Palgrave Gothic
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Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture In the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-06-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-31
Collection :
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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Dieses Werk stellt die Ergebnisse von Professor Zhang Jiangs langjähriger Forschung und seiner kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der zeitgenössischen westlichen Literaturtheorie erstmals einem deutschsprachigem Lesepublikum vor.
Ausgehend von der Beziehung zwischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-27
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Die Dokumentation eines Forschungsprojektes zielt auf die Rekonstruktion der Diskurse über den Islam in Lesebüchern des Deutschen Kaiserreiches. Sie erschließt mittels Digital Humanities und germanistisch-textanalytischer Verfahren ein digitalisiertes Textkorpus und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-27
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The first history of drama at the universities in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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The first history of drama at the universities in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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