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"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it."
Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-05
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-01
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This book draws on historical sources and current research findings, skillfully integrating theory and text analysis. Through the examination of specific works, it discusses the aesthetic construction and conceptual transformation of discourses on illness. The book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-31
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This book revisits women’s literature in 1922, long hailed as the miracle year of literary modernism, a landmark year of avant-garde innovations in publications that included James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Ezra...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-31
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations ofPersian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-31
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Since Shmuel Eisenstadt published his ground-breaking concept of multiple modernities, there have been various scholarly attempts to free the term modernity from its narrow Eurocentric origins. In line with this, the essays on literature, art and film by Japanese and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-10-31
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How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-31
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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-31
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This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the ambivalent resonance of politics in all its forms—cultural politics, sexual politics, class politics—both in his own time and,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it."
Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century. This is a period that bears witness to the conservative-authoritarian turn in modernRussian politics and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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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
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2025-10-28
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In/Visible Subjects explores the cultural fascination with invisible characters in literature. While the concept of social invisibility is common in contemporary political discourse, there exists no comprehensive analysis of the history of the cultural metaphor of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England.
Cloth, broadly interpreted,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-27
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Der Band knüpft an den ersten Teil vonDer Wille zur Wiederholung an, der den Untertitel Entzauberung und Faszination des Immergleichen in Literatur und Film trägt. Er widmet sich der Fiktion einer Spaltung: dem Widerspruch der Wiederholung eines Bildes in seinem...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-10-23
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Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a compelling case for reevaluating the writer's most overlooked body of work—his short fiction. While Fitzgerald...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-10-23
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The Life of the Author
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This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-21
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-21
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This book focuses on the synthetic and overall study of the history of literary theory, history of art or history of literary critics. Firstly, it proves itself a good combination of the history of thoughts of literature as well as thoughts of art.This book manages to...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-19
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