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Paul-Louis Courier (1772–1825), after being a comparatively discreet critic of Napoleon in his letters, became a scourge of the Restoration Establishment, both secular and clerical, in pamphlets which he published from 1816 onwards. His writings were incendiary enough...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2024-09-18
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Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-17
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Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-17
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Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to confessional, to contemporary Spoken Word. But the creative impact that public...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-17
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Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to confessional, to contemporary Spoken Word. But the creative impact that public...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-17
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2024 enthält erstmals die Rubrik ›Kleist-Funde‹, in der fünf bislang unbekannte Briefe Heinrich von Kleists an Joseph von Buol-Berenberg aus den Jahren 1809 und 1810 als Faksimile und in Transkription ediert werden. Hermann F. Weiss berichtet über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-17
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Das vorliegende Buch liefert ein neues literaturwissenschaftliches Analyseverfahren, mit dem veränderte Bewusstseinszustände in Texten analysiert werden können. Dabei werden auch Erkenntnisse aus anderen Wissenschaftsrichtungen, wie der Bewusstseins- bzw....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-16
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The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and accumulating more than it can use.The fictional things that have been read...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-16
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This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-16
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"It is a new shudder, but not an old fear." Jean Paul's sentence contains an aesthetic of the fantastic in nuce. It is based not least on the philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and aims at the essence of Romanticism. In addition to works by Mozart, Beethoven,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-16
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Mid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-13
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Das interdisziplinäre Buchprojekt widmet sich den klanglichen Dimensionen von Sprache in Literaturwissenschaft, Linguistik und Translatologie.Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich dabei insbesondere mit Übergangsphänomenen zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit sowie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-12
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Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-11
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This book looks at culturally significant, English-language texts produced in Singapore in the last 20 years by writers such as Balli Kaur Jaswal, Alfian Sa’at, Claire Tham, Amanda Lee Koe, Ng Yi-Sheng and Kevin Kwan. It provides an analysis sensitive to the writers'...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-11
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Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-11
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. The encounter with his works has had profound...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-11
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In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. From the sixteenth to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-11
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Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ideas that might in the past have been considered too silly to matter much for serious...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-11
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