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Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional playhouses read in the light of modern theories of the dramatic and postdramatic theatres. Designed to speak to scholars and students in both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry investigates the relationship between poetry and magic in the context of contemporary poetics. It traces the history of ‘magical poetics’ and the poetry of the occult to the present, in order to ask, in the context of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediation of our perception of the world. In light of deepening environmental, political, and humanitarian crises, the role of transmedia storytelling in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different traditions and values,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Presents a personal and thematic journey through English literature from Chaucer to the present Chapter and Verse: A Reader's History of English Literature offers a compelling reimagining of literary history—one that places the reader's experience at the heart of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-12-24
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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 :
2025-12-24
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Walter Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British writer, it was also described as the 'golden book' of British...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-23
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In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how Ando Shoeki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chinese and Japanese traditions of animal description, could give a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-19
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The Holocaust, one of history’s darkest chapters, not only annihilated millions but also shattered the human conscience. Amidst this devastation, women bore unique and often overlooked forms of suffering—subjected to forced deportation, sexual violence, and the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-18
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The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major series that charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries of the late twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical metaphors in British and American poetry, it argues that modernism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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‘A true Caribbeanist, James Arnold has long been a vital critical presence. These essays bear testimony to a remarkable career and to the hallmarks of Arnold’s scholarship: its extraordinary erudition; and the subtle but determined anticolonialism that motivates the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-15
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-09
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With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American women, and an unapologetic black feminist intervention. The work...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-05
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This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic.The introduction provides a broad overview of the historical and mythographical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-30
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What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-26
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Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic, the roar of industry, and the reverberations of newly popular sound technologies, everyday urban din became an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-25
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