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In der Gegenwartsliteratur zeichnet sich ein Trend ab: Innerdiegetische Brüche, welche die Realität der erzählten Welt in Frage stellen, ohne jedoch einen Genrewechsel zu provozieren, da besagte Brüche nur überaus marginalisiert auftreten.
Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-20
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Contemporary French writers have embarked on various quests for new sources of thematic and formal inspiration which are increasingly tied to issues of postcolonial legacies. However, French literature has never been consistently examined through the lens of race,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-19
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This is an open access book.Research and teaching activities in the fields of language, literature and culture are still being carried out even during the Covid -19 era that hit the world. It is undeniable that the results of research and learning of language,...
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Atlantis Press
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2025-05-19
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The Welsh Marches, a name which today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusticity, of 'blue remembered hills'. Yet, in the Middle Ages, the Marches stretched from the borders into much of modern-day...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-19
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Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature examines late-nineteenth century French understandings of literature as a morally collusive medium, which implicates readers, writers, and critics in risqué or illicit ideas and behaviour. It considers definitions of complicity...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-17
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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-16
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Since the publication of his first poetry collection Kargun in 1980, Lionel Fogarty has produced some of the most complex, playful and strident poems written in English, and has been regarded by some as the greatest Aboriginal Australian poet of his generation. While...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-16
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In Thomas Manns Prosa sind Außenseiterfiguren allgegenwärtig. Die Studie begreift sie als transgressive Figuren, die durch ihre außerordentlichen Körper und ihr grenzverletzendes Handeln Normalitätskonstruktionen und Herrschaftsstrukturen der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-16
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The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections between the 'First and Last of the New Worlds': Australia and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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Performing Libel in the Provinces provides the first book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England. The early modern phenomenon of private libel saw communal scandals creatively couched...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430–1560 is the first study to trace the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature. It begins with the first signs of humanist Greek in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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In 1277, Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil produced a concise work of accessible religious law. This handbook, 'Amudei Golah (Pillars of Exile), began as a list of religious commandments (mitzvot) meant to be recited weekly. It was divided into seven 'pillars', drawn primarily...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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How do books dazzle, disgust, or delight audiences? What entices readers to track characters’ trials and tribulations? Why do stories echo across the ages with their intensity? Books with vibrant, somatic elements prompt us to identify with protagonists who fall...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-15
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Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows that early twentieth century Chinese writers drew upon Russian texts about the socially downtrodden to describe poverty, in a bid to enrich Chinese culture by creating a syncretic new realism. Modern Chinese realist writers turned...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti.Festivals in Latin Literature explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic poetry, as well as historiography. In all of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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The English first edition of Dramatis Personæ was published in May 1864, with the American first edition appearing hard on its heels in the following September. This was the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years--the first, Men and Women,...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
2025-05-13
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This open access book examines how selected African American authors—Colson Whitehead, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, Percival Everett, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sherri L. Smith, and N.K. Jemisin—narrate relationships between emotion, race, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-13
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This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literature and culture of the early modern world. The volume is structured in three sections. Section One looks at the institutional spaces of the Inns themselves. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-12
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In einer Zeit, in der Ökokritik, Nature Writing und Klimawandelliteratur auch im deutschsprachigen Raum an Bedeutung gewinnen, ist der Begriff des Mülls in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Analyse bislang weitgehend unberücksichtigt geblieben. Die vorliegende Studie...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-05-12
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St Francis and Cultural Memory explores central aspects of English national, spiritual, and broader cultural identity through a detailed yet accessible analysis of a familiar figure: the Franciscan Friar. Covering more than four hundred years from the late fourteenth to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-11
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