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'To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.'
Thomas More's Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers since its first publication in Latin in 1516. It is a scathing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-23
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Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and literature. By focusing on walking as both a practice and a narrative device, the book illustrates how mobilities shape...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-22
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First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America’s foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature. The volume shows how Schwarz’s concrete analyses of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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Joseph, Judah, and Plot explores the concept of narrative continuity in Genesis 37-50. By tracing the plot-structure of the story about Jacob and his sons, author Paul Twiss assesses the cohesiveness and intent of the narrative. He uses Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-20
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-18
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-18
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'To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.'
Thomas More's Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers since its first publication in Latin in 1516. It is a scathing...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-18
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Das Buch präsentiert eine mathematische Leseart des literarischen Raums, die als Werkzeug benutzt wird, um die Verflechtungen von Raum, Zeit, Thematik, Handlungsverlauf, Figurenkonstellation und Erzählperspektive in interkulturellen Romanen kartographisch zu...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-17
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This book in Tagore studies offers a fresh analysis of Tagorean thought by working through the philosophy and poetics of plasticity. As a prominent figure in plastic theory,Ghoshexplores Tagore''s views on education, identity politics, environment, and literature...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-16
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Welche Bedeutung hat Serendipität als Modell ungeplanter, ungesuchter und zufallsgespeister Kreativität für Darstellungen und Praktiken des Spurenlesens? Diese Frage erkundet der vorliegende Band ausgehend von Carlo Ginzburgs Begriff des „Indizienparadigmas“, der...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-16
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Gesellschaftsdiagnosen durchkreuzen die Soziologiegeschichte in sehr unterschiedlichen Formen. Während sich geschichtsphilosophische Traditionslinien weitestgehend verflüchtigt haben, bestimmen aktuell interdisziplinäre und intermediale Experimentierfelder das Geschäft...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-16
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This book offers a cutting-edge compilation of studies on (re)conceptualized traditions in a wide variety of discourses such as the language of emotion, folklore, religion and morality, the natural environment, idioms and proverbs. It also raises complex theoretical and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-16
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-16
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This volume belongs to the new critical edition of the complete works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and in accordance with the principles of modern textual scholarship.This volume comprises the first critical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-14
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This is an open access book.
The 6th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2024) will be held on October 18–20, 2024 in Xi'an, China. Literature is an art that reflects the social life and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-13
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This book aims to bring to readers the author’s elaborated focus on the dynamic process of sign emergence, use, fixation and un-fixation, and dismissal. Its uniqueness is in its reliance on the organizing limits of irreversible time that renders the meaning construction...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-13
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The book explores the intimate connection between poetry and politics in modernity and, in particular, in liberal and fascist Italy. Through a historical and interdisciplinary approach, the essays focus on various fundamental passages of liberal system crisis: political...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-12-13
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-12
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What makes fiction recognizable as fiction? Texts are shaped by their material print, but this book argues that they can also be made in response to it: that the needs of the magazine in the nineteenth century spurred writers to create hybrid, entangled texts. Using...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-11
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Das Buch untersucht die vielschichtige Darstellung von Melancholie in zwei bedeutenden literarischen Werken der chinesischen und deutschen Literatur. Es beleuchtet die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Melancholie in literarischen, kulturellen und historischen Kontexten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-11
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