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This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to the severe economic downturn in the cotton trade in Lancashire and elsewhere precipitated by the Union blockade of Confederate exports during the American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-19
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This book bridges theological, historical, and sociocultural perspectives to 35 explore the lives and church experiences of women in Femmes Pour Christ in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon. Using a practical theological method, diakonia theories, and African...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. Beginning with early modern European disease ecologies but informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological concerns, The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-18
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It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial world, rendering it a pale imitation of the European present. In The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time, Shaj Mathew offers a powerful challenge to this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US and UK experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signalled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book explores how contemporary Australian ecofiction interrogates and challenges settler-colonial conceptions of nature and the nonhuman through a close-reading of nine Australian eco-novels. Fetherston's reading reveals the representation of the nonhuman in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Robert Menasse und Juli Zeh sind politische Autor:innen – aber wie politisch sind ihre Texte? Die Studie versteht die Artikulation des Politischen im Text als Streit um Teilhabe, Ordnung und Repräsentation. Politische Literatur wird nicht über ihre...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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A comprehensive collection of translated sources on the wars and world of Alexander's successors Successors to Alexander the Great brings together—for the first time in a single collection—the essential translated sources for the tumultuous period following the death of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-11-14
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature in English as a case study. It aims to show how readers actively engage with witness literature, serving both as witnesses to the narratives presented...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-13
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Decoloniality has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of public and academic debates of our time, bringing to the fore the post-colonial perspectives of previously underrepresented groups. Interest is similarly growing around the countries of the Caucasus and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-12
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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching reassesses Edmond and Jules de Goncourts' work as both authors and etchers, arguing that their firsthand experience with printmaking fundamentally shaped their prose. Known as novelists, diarists, art historians, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-12
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Martin Heideggers Einfluss reicht bis heute weit über enge disziplinäre Grenzen hinaus in die verschiedenen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie die gesamtgesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit hinein. Gleichzeitig werden er und seine Philosophie, insbesondere seit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-11
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Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten. In den Blick genommen werden die literarischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-10
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Dieses Buch reflektiert die Bedeutung von Jugendliteratur über Holocaust und Genozid für eine im Wandel befindliche Erinnerungskultur. Mit dem Gattungsbegriff der "Holocaust- und Genozid-Jugendliteratur" wird eine Erweiterung des erinnerungskulturellen Rahmens...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of linguistics (semantics/pragmatics), experimental literature and art, with excursions into the environmental humanities. The book proposes a new style of artistic and literary practice which takes the space...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-09
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The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold, paving the way for Weimar Classicism without walking it himself. Lessing is the ‘pre-classicist’ of German literature, praised and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-07
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This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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What does it mean to empathize today?
Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'express character.' But to what extent can the novel capture...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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