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Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-31
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This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy’s novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and world-systems analyses with a cultural materialist approach, the study offers unparalleled coverage of global links in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-10-30
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This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/or speak, a theme which appears in everything from classical mythology to twentieth -century and contemporary literature, which draws on this earlier...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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This book offers the first full-length study of Henry James's relationship with, and literary treatment of, New York. It shows how the city, whether observed or reimagined, always remained an essential component of James's identity. New York compelled James to confront...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Trotz der Dominanz des Audiovisuellen in unserer Zeit sind das Bilderbuch und das illustrierte (Kinder-)Buch zu einer ungeahnten künstlerischen Höhe gelangt. Die Kommunikationsmedien aus Bild und Text angemessen zu rezipieren, versteht sich nicht von selbst. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Etwa seit der Jahrtausendwende ist ein internationaler und nach wie vor anhaltender Boom von Adaptionen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie und Historie zu verzeichnen. Dieser ist durch eine bemerkenswerte mediale Vielfalt und Vernetzungsfreude gekennzeichnet. Folglich...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-29
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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
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2024-10-29
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatness and gain lasting fame.
In thisVery Short Introduction,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-29
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What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Die knapp eineinhalb Jahrzehnte nach 1970 erscheinen im Rückblick als eine Art Sattelzeit der deutschen Popmusik: Fast alle maßgeblichen, zukunftsträchtigen Stile, Artikulations- und Inszenierungsweisen des deutschen Pop entwickeln und etablieren sich in diesem...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694. These proto-novelistic fictions are accompanied by a scholarly introduction as well as notes and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-28
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Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-26
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This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world. As the second volume of Chinese Creative Writing Studies, the first of which introduces Chinese creative writing to English-speaking readers, this book expands on the first in...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-10-25
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-25
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This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content. Examining five North and Central American novels from the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-24
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Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of “race suicide” and period representations of literary suicide. Against the backdrop of the turn-of-the-century debates over immigration...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-22
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