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Literatursoziologische Fragen sind seit einiger Zeit wieder ins Blickfeld der germanistischen Forschung gerückt, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen, ökonomischen und technologischen Entwicklungen, die die Literaturbranche grundlegend verändern. Die...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-01-19
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A year of firsts, feats, and fortitudes. All in one remarkable year - in 2024-25, India clinched its maiden ICC Women's Cricket World Cup win; the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in Paschim Bardhaman District, West Bengal, rolled out 700 locomotives; the nation...
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Hachette India
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2026-01-15
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This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness. Accused by their critics of lowness and inconsequentiality, these works act as literary mediations of a lower middle-class urban...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-14
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This book builds a new framework for interpreting the use of classical source material in Macrobius' Saturnalia. It argues that the Saturnalia, an educational dialogue long dismissed as a nostalgic compilation looking back to the 'pagan' classical past, engages with its...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-10
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This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop Boys. Jakobsson examines minor characters and their role, as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-09
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'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'R
This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-07
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This edited collection of essays analyses the contributions that presentist theory and criticism have made to the field of Shakespeare studies in recent years while simultaneously highlighting the contributions of Hugh Grady to that intellectual endeavour. The book is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-05
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-04
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During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-04
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This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity. By covering work by authors such as Lu Xun, Yuan Shu, Zhou Libo, Bing Xin, Ding Lin, Guo Xiaochuan, Ye...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-02
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This landmark volume offers a bold response from the East to the Western classic The Golden Bough, bringing Chinese perspectives into the global conversation on comparative mythology.
Through a close examination of the culturally distinctive motif of the “Jade...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Erinnern stiftet Identität, sowohl für Einzelne als auch für Gruppen und Kulturen, denn es stellt über eine gemeinsam geteilte Vergangenheit Verbindungen und Verbindlichkeiten her. DochErinnern beruht auf subjektiver Wahrnehmung und ist – wie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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In diesem Buch wird die Hypothese untersucht, wonach intertextuelle Referenzen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur durch bedeutende japanische Schriftsteller und Filmschaffende – insbesondere auf Thomas Mann und Franz Kafka bei Yukio Mishima, Morio Kita, Kenzaburo Oe,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Elias Canetti (1905–1994) und Veza Canetti (1897–1963) arbeiten seit den frühen 1930er Jahren in einer gemeinsamen ›Schreibwerkstatt‹. Während der spätere Nobelpreisträger noch den Roman Die Blendung (1936) verfasst,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines. From his social journalism in the early...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, now printed for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Gedicht-, Balladen- und Lieder-Sammlungen erreichen seit der Barock-Zeit interessierte Lesergruppen fast aller Altersstufen. Die Musen-Almanache des späten 18. Jahrhunderts und frühen 19. Jahrhundertserschienen in hohen Auflagen und fanden große...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout his academic career, responded to the challenges of extracting deep philosophical significance and previously unnoticed implications from this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a “South-South” comparison of the works of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Congolese author Sony Labou Tansi. It argues that the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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