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This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-31
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Im Fokus des russischsprachigen 91. Bandes des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs steht russophone Dichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts zwischen Modernismus („Silbernes Zeitalter“) und Underground („Bronze Age“). Die literaturhistorischen Untersuchungen und Publikationen über...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-30
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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
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2024-08-30
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This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another.
The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related to each other. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-08-29
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Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing together two...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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This book introduces the origin and development of Chinese fiction before late Qing dynasty. It covers a broad range of topics in traditional Chinese fiction studies including novels written in classical and vernacular Chinese, structure and narrative of fiction...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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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
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2024-08-27
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This book identifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir, novel, and essay, and explores the futures they envision for migrants and their surrounding societies. The primary material ranges from personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-08-24
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As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science. Tom Rutter shows, however, that in his plays and poetry Shakespeare...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment ideas, and ranging across an Edinburgh print shop, an excluded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-23
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Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim about the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and identity that cross genres. The volume uncovers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-21
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In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sich Nicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie sich auf Thomas Mann, der Japans...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-21
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An inspiring and delightful illustrated collection of quotations from a diverse range of our most beloved children's books that will help teach all of us how to live in the world today, perfect for gift season and for readers of books like The Boy, The Mole, The...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2024-08-20
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A systematic etymological approach to understanding the Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes of "med-speak" Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific Terminologies explains the Greek and Latin origins of the roots, prefixes, and suffixes of terms used in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-19
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One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-19
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This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute pandemic, and breakthroughs in bioengineering practices,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-08
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A fascinating and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
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2024-08-08
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Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-03
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