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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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In a novel reading of Shakespeare’s plays, this book addresses an observation first made many decades ago, that Shakespeare appears to neglect the intellectual upheavals that astronomy brought about in his lifetime. The author examines temporal, situational, and verbal...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-11-24
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Poetische Reflexionen über den Suizid beleuchten die Verhältnisse, in denen Menschen verzweifeln. Doch vor welchen Hintergründen tritt die Suizidthematik in Erscheinung? Welche Formen und Funktionen weist sie auf? Handelt es sich um ein psychisches, soziales,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-23
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Die 17 Beiträge dieses Bandes verfolgen eine Standortbestimmung der Philologien, die – ausgehend vom Volksgeist des 19. und der Kulturkunde des 20. Jahrhunderts – sich im 21. Jahrhundert neu positionieren müssen.Die einzelnen Beiträge gehen auf Fragen ein wie: Welche...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-11-20
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Wenigen Dichtern der Moderne gelingt es so wie Mörike, Literatur aus dem sozialen Lebenszusammenhang hervorgehen zu lassen und auf ihn zu beziehen. Dabei steigern und intensivieren sich Kunst und Leben wechselseitig. Mit höchster poetischer Sensibilität macht...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-11-18
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This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-18
Collection :
Asia in Transition
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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-18
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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-18
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Die elf chronologisch geordneten Beiträge des Sammelbandes gehen von den literarischen und kulturpolitischen Gegebenheiten aus der Zeit des Eisernen Vorhangs aus, um namhafte Vertreter der rumäniendeutschen Literatur der Nachkriegs- und Vorwendejahre 1945–1989 (u.a....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-15
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This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-12
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L’attribution du prix Nobel de littérature, avec le cortège de revendications et de fiertés qui l’accompagne, conduit, chaque année, à un réagencement de la carte européenne et mondiale des littératures – réagencement qui, presque toujours, révèle des conflits de...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-12
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The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully illustrated by Paul Kidby.The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2021-11-11
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Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-11
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Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-11
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A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.
During the 1920s and 30s, words and pictures in print were the main way in which people...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-11
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A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.
During the 1920s and 30s, words and pictures in print were the main way in which people...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-11
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The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-10
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This volume maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators’ perspective. It analyzes spaces where political crimes have been committed and how these places have undergone successive resemanticization in collective memories. The chapters...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-10
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Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first black philosopher to matriculate at a Prussian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-09
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