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A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets.
Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were--or became--some of...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-07-08
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When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, “at the friction point of two cultures”. His schooling introduced him to the “classics”; but it also deprived him of a clear identification with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-07-08
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Framing Marilynne Robinson's fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson's novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-08
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Framing Marilynne Robinson's fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson's novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-08
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This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-07
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Alfred Nobels Testament wohnt eine Dynamik inne, die alljährlich für internationale Kontroversen sorgt. Die Schwedische Akademie, die diese Auszeichnung verleiht, versucht seit Beginn ihrer Tätigkeit, die von Nobel festgelegten Richtlinien vor dem Hintergrund...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-07-07
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Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-07-06
Collection :
The Life of the Author
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This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE). In twenty-five chapters composed by leading specialists, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature surveys the immense body of Greek literature...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-05
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This book presents comprehensive coverage of the latest advances in research into enabling machines to listen to and compose new music. It includes chapters introducing what we know about human musical intelligence and on how this knowledge can be simulated with AI. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-02
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From the author of Magical Negro, Winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award'Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music' Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the WaterOther People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night - the book...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2021-07-01
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This book analyses cricket’s place in Anglophone Caribbean literature. It examines works by canonical authors – Brathwaite, Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon – and by understudied writers – including Agard, Fergus, John, Keens-Douglas, Khan and Markham. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-01
Collection :
New Caribbean Studies
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Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst examines the innovative poems for multiple voices composed by the Canadian poet by drawing on the main insights of biosemiotics, ecophilosophy and material ecocriticism. In seeking to emulate the polyphonic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-29
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Provides the necessary context to read elegiac and lyric poetry, designed for novice and experienced Classics and Latin students alike A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric explores the language of Latin poetry while helping readers understand the socio-cultural context of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-06-29
Collection :
Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature
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Bei der Beschäftigung mit der Allgäuer Literatur gibt es Nachholbedarf – sie ist im Unterschied zu anderen Sparten des kulturellen Lebens vergleichsweise schlecht erschlossen und vernetzt. Dasselbe gilt für die Repräsentation des Allgäus als Literaturregion in der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-29
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This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ‘constantly beleeve’ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-28
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The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka examines the full length of Baraka’s discography as a poet recording with musicians as well as his contributions to jazz and R & B, beginning with his earliest studio recordings in 1965 and continuing to the last year of his life,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-25
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersuchen wir, was Datensouveränität aus ethischer und rechtlicher Perspektive bedeuten kann und entwickeln mittels des Modells der dynamischen Einwilligung konkrete Governance-Ansätze für den Gesundheitsbereich. Im Zeitalter...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Der Eigenname ist als sprachliches Phänomen Gegenstand vielfältiger wissenschaftlicher Betrachtung. In der Literatur erfüllt er seine Funktion unter anderem durch sein assoziatives Potenzial, das im Einzelwerk herauszuarbeiten eine literaturwissenschaftliche...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy studies Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-José Martín-González draws upon the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-23
Collection :
Maritime Literature and Culture
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