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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship examines forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and intimacy betweenVictorian female travel writers and Meiji Japanese. Drawing on unpublished primary sources and contemporary Japanese...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-13
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This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-11
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The book is a comparative study of the works of Józef Wittlin and Pär Lagerkvist, in their youth recognized as prominent expressionist writers, and in their later years making the ethical topic the core of their works. In search for ways of expressing ethical dilemmas,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-01-11
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This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-08
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With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the rise of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-06
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Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present. With contributions by experts in American, British, French, German and Swedish culture, this book examines how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Entgegen einer pauschalen Kritik an den Epochenbegriffen diskutieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes historische und systematische Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Epochisierungen. Unterschiedliche sozio-kulturelle Systeme werfen unterschiedliche Fragen auf. Als...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie, and SHAN Sa. They were all born in China, moved to France in their adulthood to pursue their literary and artistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-03
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This book explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese scholars and policymakers are debating heatedly over China’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual moral flaws. However, the sense of morality that underlies this book is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK.This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
New Comparisons in World Literature
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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation focuses on the process of translation and its implications. The volume explores the translation of works of science fiction (SF) from one language to another and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Studies in Global Science Fiction
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This book discusses John Galsworthy’s compassion for people and animals, in his fiction, non-fiction and drama. Initial chapters explore compassion in The Forsyte Saga and The Modern Comedy, and his parents’ influence. Other chapters examine his works...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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