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Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this time period shaped Pullman's extraordinary trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
In Part One, readers are taken...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-15
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This book traces the development of autofiction along with the other directions it has led to, such as autoethnography and autotheory, and explores their textual potentialities to reproduce underrepresented realities of multi-ethnicity. It presents how the hybridity and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-13
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By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth's deep history, from the planet's molten origins to the rise of humanity. Many figures in transatlantic science across subsequent decades, however, had...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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This book delivers a powerful argument for the centrality of sport in culture, exploring how fine sports writing bestows meaning upon the human world. Literary Sports Journalism: Beyond the Boundaries explores the multiple and fertile interconnections between sports...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-12
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This book explores the relationship between Anne Brontë’s work and the life and writings of Lord Byron. Byron’s influence on the other Brontë siblings is well-documented but absent in Anne’s history. Building on recent discourses of rich intertextuality in Anne’s work,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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Edith Wharton’s sensitively observed portraits of women’s lives a century ago resonate into the present day, captivating readers now as they did then. Threaded throughout her accounts is a rich seam of secrets and silences that reveals Wharton’s keen grasp of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of key debates and case studies centered the translation of Greek...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-10
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?'
Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English. Many rituals, so-called rites of passage in particular, are strongly associated with the changing status of individuals as members of a family unit....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-10
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The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-05
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'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?'
Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-05
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This book explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-03
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Comics und Graphic Novels als Unterrichtsgegenstände sind bislang wenig etabliert, obgleich sie ein breites Spektrum an Möglichkeiten für eine unterrichtliche Auseinandersetzung bieten. Der vorliegende Band lotet diese didaktischen Perspektiven aus. In den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies. It demonstrates that the hunting and killing of animals was (and still is) a highly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North. It offers a comparative framework which underlines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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This is the first fully annotated edition of The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (previously known as Table Talk) since 1892, the very first based on a critical scrutiny of twenty-one surviving manuscripts, fifteen more than any previous editor knew existed.This expanded...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life.Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and—most disturbingly of all for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-26
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Fiktionalität ist ein Bewußtseinsphänomen. Anders als in den zahlreichen bereits zur Verfügung stehenden Studien wird das Fiktionale hier aufgefaßt als eine spezifische Projektionsleistung durch das menschliche Bewußtsein – des Textproduzenten wie des Rezipienten. Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This collection concentrates on the secondary works of Louisa May Alcott and looks at the idea that Alcott was as heavily influenced by her times as by her transcendentalist upbringing. Her work often subverts the conventional and includes the new, the practical, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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This book argues that the revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, and post-revolutionary dialectics in modern Chinese history since the early-20th century characterizes modern and contemporary Chinese literature the most. Central to these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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