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The Holocaust, one of history’s darkest chapters, not only annihilated millions but also shattered the human conscience. Amidst this devastation, women bore unique and often overlooked forms of suffering—subjected to forced deportation, sexual violence, and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-18
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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-09
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With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American women, and an unapologetic black feminist intervention. The work...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-05
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic.The introduction provides a broad overview of the historical and mythographical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-30
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What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-26
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Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic, the roar of industry, and the reverberations of newly popular sound technologies, everyday urban din became an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-25
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This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia. It provides readings of Southeast Asian literatures in a comparative context,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-23
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This book brings together the complete letters of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, the first wife of Eric Blair, the man we know as George Orwell. Although they married in 1936 and spent the next nine years together, Eileen’s extensive influence on Orwell’s work is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-23
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Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-22
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Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of queer subjectivity—an aesthetic, affective, and epistemological impasse. Through provocative readings of literature, film, music, and performance, the contributors expose...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Reiseliteratur erfährt im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue gesellschaftliche Relevanz, gibt es doch eine Vielzahl an Blogs, Vlogs oder Instagram-Posts zum Thema Reise. Besonders hervor treten dabei weiblich markierte Erzählungen, die vom Alleinreisen als Frau künden und in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Gender in Asian Shakespeare: Towards Intercultural Feminism is the first full-length study of gender in East and Southeast Asian productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Resituating gender theory within new performance contexts, forms and communities, this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-21
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic.The introduction provides a broad overview of the historical and mythographical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-20
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-20
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