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Decoloniality has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of public and academic debates of our time, bringing to the fore the post-colonial perspectives of previously underrepresented groups. Interest is similarly growing around the countries of the Caucasus and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-12
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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching reassesses Edmond and Jules de Goncourts' work as both authors and etchers, arguing that their firsthand experience with printmaking fundamentally shaped their prose. Known as novelists, diarists, art historians, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-12
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Martin Heideggers Einfluss reicht bis heute weit über enge disziplinäre Grenzen hinaus in die verschiedenen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie die gesamtgesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit hinein. Gleichzeitig werden er und seine Philosophie, insbesondere seit der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-11-11
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Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten. In den Blick genommen werden die literarischen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-11-10
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Dieses Buch reflektiert die Bedeutung von Jugendliteratur über Holocaust und Genozid für eine im Wandel befindliche Erinnerungskultur. Mit dem Gattungsbegriff der "Holocaust- und Genozid-Jugendliteratur" wird eine Erweiterung des erinnerungskulturellen Rahmens...
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Springer VS
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2025-11-10
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This book is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of linguistics (semantics/pragmatics), experimental literature and art, with excursions into the environmental humanities. The book proposes a new style of artistic and literary practice which takes the space...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-09
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The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold, paving the way for Weimar Classicism without walking it himself. Lessing is the ‘pre-classicist’ of German literature, praised and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-07
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This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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What does it mean to empathize today?
Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'express character.' But to what extent can the novel capture...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it."
Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-05
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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 :
2025-11-01
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This book draws on historical sources and current research findings, skillfully integrating theory and text analysis. Through the examination of specific works, it discusses the aesthetic construction and conceptual transformation of discourses on illness. The book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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Decoloniality has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of public and academic debates of our time, bringing to the fore the post-colonial perspectives of previously underrepresented groups. Interest is similarly growing around the countries of the Caucasus and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-31
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This book revisits women’s literature in 1922, long hailed as the miracle year of literary modernism, a landmark year of avant-garde innovations in publications that included James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Ezra...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-31
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations ofPersian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-31
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Since Shmuel Eisenstadt published his ground-breaking concept of multiple modernities, there have been various scholarly attempts to free the term modernity from its narrow Eurocentric origins. In line with this, the essays on literature, art and film by Japanese and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-10-31
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How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-31
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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-31
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This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the ambivalent resonance of politics in all its forms—cultural politics, sexual politics, class politics—both in his own time and,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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