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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-17
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses orThe Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-17
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This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field.
Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-17
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Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-17
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The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-16
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Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit,' 'poetry,'...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-12
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the second volume of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, is Dickens's third novel, originally published in monthly parts between March 1838 and September 1839. Brilliantly comic, the novel quickly developed a strong...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-10
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This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early 2000s in order to explore the cultural hybridization and transgressive identity transformations at play in these works. It shows how the ornamental style and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-05
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Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-04
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This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-03
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This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing how Ishiguro remains greatly indebted to Japanese culture and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-03
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This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-02
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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-02
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The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-01
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In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts avanciert die Erinnerung zu einem zentralen Gegenstand der deutschsprachigen Lyrik. Das bislang in der Forschung weitgehend marginalisierte Genre der Erinnerungslyrik wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit erstmals systematisch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2023-12-31
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Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik
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Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-12-28
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This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-12-28
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This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-12-28
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Franz Kafka pflegte zu Lebzeiten intensive gesellige und intellektuelle Kontakte, die teils mit bekannten Namen verbunden, teils nahezu vergessen sind. Der Band nimmt die vielfältigen Austauschprozesse des Prager Umfelds in den Blick. Er...
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J.B. Metzler
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2023-12-27
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This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-12-27
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