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This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-18
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Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry. The first section, “World Literature and World...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-18
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This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese.This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-18
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Editeur :
Sceptre
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2024-06-13
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Unter dem Begriff der Multisensorik, also dem Zusammenspiel verschiedener Sinne, hat sich in den letzten Jahren ein neues geisteswissenschaftliches Paradigma etabliert, das in Slavistik und Osteuropastudien jedoch noch kaum erforscht ist. Der Band versammelt literatur-,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-12
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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-11
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ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023BBC POETRY EXTRA 'Book of the Month''Landau's stunning collection Skeletons opens: "So whatever's the opposite of a Buddhist that's what I am", and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends,...
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Corsair
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2024-06-06
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While text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic preoccupations. This book upsets that narrative. Examining literary manuscripts from some of the twentieth century's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-01
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Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It argues that working through the full complexity of ‘tragedy’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary ‘settings’. It examines the multifaceted relationships between authors, narrators, and characters to their locales, as well as broader considerations of the significance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey – a set of very different social and cultural landscapes – the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-30
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Romantik und Realismus werden in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung vorwiegend als Gegensätze beschrieben. Ihre Rekonstruktion als dichotome Epochen verstellt aber den Blick auf die Kontinuitäten zwischen den beiden großen Literaturbewegungen des 19. Jahrhunderts, auf...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-05-29
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Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-28
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This edited collection offers a reappraisal of character as a precondition for caricature and addresses how the two began to merge, becoming increasingly interlinked over the course of the long eighteenth century. It emphasises the need to understand character more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-28
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This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed examination of the Shelleyan narrative accessible to the Brontës from their childhood to their final novels, this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-26
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This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individualistic movement, with writers believing in the ‘centrality’ of the self. Challenging this prevailing view of Romanticism and the modern self, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-23
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. ThisVery Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-23
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Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-05-21
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Cicero's letters have figured prominently in some of western modernity's most cherished illusions about the immediacy of its encounter with Classical antiquity. Celebrated since their discovery in the Renaissance for their intimate mode of self-expression, they have...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-05-14
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What do we mean by ‘dialogue’?What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the author’s production?
This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-13
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