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A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours.
The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘smaller stories’ in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-26
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Warum sollte Literatur im Schulunterricht des 21. Jahrhunderts thematisiert werden? Die vorliegende quantitativ-empirische Fragebogenstudie untersucht dieses Themenfeld bei zukünftigen Lehrer*innengenerationen an deutschen Universitäten. Dazu wurden in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-08-23
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This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945–1960 from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-20
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-20
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What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-20
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The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise.The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-20
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Whereas modernist writers lauded the consecrated realm of subjective interiority, mid-century writers were engrossed by the materialization of the collective mind. An obsession with group thinking was fuelled by the establishment of academic sociology and the ubiquitous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Whereas modernist writers lauded the consecrated realm of subjective interiority, mid-century writers were engrossed by the materialization of the collective mind. An obsession with group thinking was fuelled by the establishment of academic sociology and the ubiquitous...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Useful Objects examines the history of American museums during the nineteenth century through the eyes of visitors, writers, and collectors. Museums of this period included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to antiquarian artifacts and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-18
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Dungan Folktales and Legends is a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after failure of theDungan Revolt (1862–1877)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-17
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This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-17
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Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-12
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A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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Die politische Sozialisation von Kindern beginnt bereits im Vorschulalter.Die Autorin untersucht, wie dieser Sozialisationsprozess im Kindergarten der DDR gestaltet werden sollte und welche Rolle dabei das kulturelle Konzept «Heimat» bzw. «sozialistische Heimat»...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-12
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