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A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book
C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-06
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This book explores the connections that José Joaquín de Mora (1783–1864)established with Britain, where he was exiled from 1823 to 1826 and was toreturn as diplomat in the following decades. His admiration for the Britishmaterialised in a series of cultural transfers...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-06
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On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-05
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On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-05
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In Zeiten zunehmender Bedrohungen für das aktuell gelebte Europa stellt dieser Band mit Beiträgen internationaler Forscher(Innen) aus multidisziplinärer Perspektive literarische Konzepte für eine europäische Idee vor. Kontinuitätslinien und Brüche zwischen stark...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-05
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The concept of the game illustrates a collectively recognized representation of existence in American literature. This investigation explores the concealment of the function of division beneath the function of communication.The philosophical cornerstones of this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-04
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Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-03
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Unter dem Schlagwort eines ,Neuen Kosmopolitismus’ plädieren Theoretiker*innen verschiedener Disziplinen seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts für eine kritische Wiederaufnahme und Aktualisierung des Kosmopolitismusbegriffs. Obwohl in diesem Kontext wiederholt die...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-03
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Exil-Kulturen
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-03
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Die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur beschäftigt sich seit Beginn der 2000er-Jahre zunehmend mit Prekaritätsphänomenen wie Armut, Arbeitslosigkeit und Erfahrungen des sozialen Abstiegs. Im Zentrum des Buchs stehen ausgewählte Romane, die mithilfe...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-02
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Dostojewskijs Beteiligung an einem Gesprächskreis, in dem frühsozialistische Ideen diskutiert wurden, hätte ihn fast das Leben gekostet. Nach seinen Sträflingsjahren wandelte sich der russische Autor zu einem erbitterten Gegner des westeuropäischen Sozialismus, in dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-29
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Das Buch fragt nach der Wirkung des Oxfordmotivs in der Literatur und im kulturellen Gedächtnis Großbritanniens. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Entstehung des Oxfordmythos sowie seine Abhängigkeit von kulturgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen. Es zeigt sich, dass...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-29
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Consigned to oblivion by the Franco regime and traditional historiography, the Other Silver Age Spain (1868-1939) encompasses an array of cultural forms that are coming back into view today with the aid of mass digitization. This volume examines the period through a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-28
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This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. It considers lacunae in the history, criticism and scholarly translations of Old Norse poetry into English through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-04-27
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In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-25
Collection :
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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This book presents how Nation and Narrative are bound together through the figure of the "N/native" as it appears in the non-fictional writings of Cornelia Sorabji, Grazia Deledda, Zitkála-%Sá, Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo, and Gwendolyn Bennett. It addresses two...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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