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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-24
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'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-24
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Wenngleich der Forschungsstand, wenn es sich um die intendierte Textaussage des Musil’schen Œuvre handelt, durch das Fehlen einer Opinio communis gekennzeichnet ist, tritt die vorliegende Studie den Beweis an, dass eine ebensolche freizulegen ist. In Musils Opus magnum...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-04-23
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This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-04-23
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Much of U.S. cultural production since the twentieth century has celebrated the figure of the singular individual, from the lonesome Huckleberry Finn to the cinematic loners John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, but that tradition casts a backward shadow that prohibits seeing...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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Dieser Band würdigt Simenons lange unterschätztes Romanwerk in vierfacher Hinsicht. In gattungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive arbeitet er die Originalität der Ermittlerfigur Maigret sowie die Affinität der „harten Romane“ zum Existentialismus heraus. Unter...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-04-22
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Kriminalität in Literatur und Medien
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How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-22
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-22
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-22
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«An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.»
(Seamus Perry, Fellow of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-16
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Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-15
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Aldous Huxley’s Short Fiction analyzes Huxley’s short stories within a modernist context, highlighting that he shared more characteristics with distinguished modernists than is usually believed. The book also explores other features of Huxley’s short stories,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-04-13
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This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences. With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-12
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?This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-04-09
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Fürst Myschkin kommt in Dostojewskijs Roman Idiot beim Betrachten einer Kopie des Gemäldes von Hans Holbein Der Leichnam Christi im Grabe zu der Erkenntnis, „von einem solchen Bild kann einem der Glaube vergehen.“ Dostojewskij selbst war ein begeisterter Bildbetrachter,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-08
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Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-07
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Written in the form of a back-and-forth dialogue between the two authors, this book is about the relationship between feeling and thinking in Dickens's novels. It presents Dickens as a psychological thinker, whose generative thought may be conscious, unconscious,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-05
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Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literaryDecadence...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on the serious side and melancholic moods of Romantic poets. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling instead embraces the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-05
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"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-05
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