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This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies
Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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Provides an authoritative treatment of the life, work, and legacy of Charles Dickens A Companion to Charles Dickens is an essential resource for understanding one of the most celebrated authors in English literature. This extensively revised edition features a wealth of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-09-22
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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‘Making original use of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "minor literature" and its power to shift boundaries and enable new forms of becoming, Roberto Binetti reads the work of Italian women poets who transform the contours of lyric poetry and its political valencies....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-19
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The eponymous inter esse means the elusive “third” position of that which lies between, that which escapes unambiguous classification and constitutes the essence of Romanticism.The book provides a constellation of texts, a clash of case studies that provide contrasting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-19
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Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we find in the works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert is a form of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-15
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The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary and dramatic context. It offers a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its chapters reflect Wilde's status as a queer writer while filling in the gaps that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-15
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Immersion used to be disregarded by academic scholarship as a secondary aspect of ancient narrative. It was mostly considered typical of a passive reading style unworthy of intellectual consideration. However, the study of the immersive strategies adopted by ancient...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-15
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Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright's dramatic reinvention of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a wide range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-15
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship draws together leading and emerging scholars of Shakespeare and early modern literature to consider anew how authorship worked in the time in which Shakespeare wrote, and to interrogate the construction of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-15
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This book analyses Tolkien’s approach to the depiction of vices and virtues in three Middle-earth works, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. While providing a general synthetising overview of up-to-date research in the topic, its uniqueness consists...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-15
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'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?'
Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-12
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This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-09-11
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In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance. She fashioned a sense of literature across genre that engaged deeply with both her activism and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-10
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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-08
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An ideal introduction and a reliable guide for students and teachers of European literature Uniquely broad in both geographic and chronological scope, A History of European Literature introduces students to the origins, influences, and historical development of European...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-09-05
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Auf der Basis eines multidimensionalen, offenen und fluiden Kulturbegriffs analysieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes eine repräsentative Auswahl deutschsprachiger Romane, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten entstanden sind und sich mit dem Themenkomplex der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-05
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