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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Der Band bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Dependenz zwischen Poetizität und Wirklichkeit, zwischen Schreiben als Engagement und Schreiben als Selbsttherapie, zwischen Erinnerung und Verfälschung. Es werden die Flucht der Figuren vor dem irakischen Regime seit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-11
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This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-09
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Dieses Buch bietet einen ersten wissenschaftlichen Überblick über einen bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der deutschsprachigen Kriminalliteratur, der unter der Genrebezeichnung ‚Thriller‘ firmiert – und den Buchmarkt derzeit geradezu dominiert. Dabei besteht das Ziel...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-07-08
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Matriarchale Elemente existieren in der russischen und russländischen Kultur als ein bedeutender Bestandteil der sozialen Ordnung, der Sprache, der Mythologien und der religiösen und weltanschaulichen Positionen. Das Buch untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-08
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Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been overwritten with romantic and modernist inflections that impede our understanding of literature’s intimate involvement in early modern cognition. To...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-07
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This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-07
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'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'
Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-06
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'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-06
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This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating the apes glimpsed in Shakespeare’s plays in the wider context of the many uncelebrated uses by other playwrights, c....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-06
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This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiring aesthetic principle, it once encapsulated the particularities of various types of artistic creation and played an important role in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-05
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Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in theVictorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-04
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Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und Schreibverfahren. In den Besprechungen ihrer Werke geht es um inhaltliche und formale Aspekte ebenso wie um Entstehung,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-06-29
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This biography represents a nuanced account of Edith Rickert’s life—and inner life. It follows Rickert’s own writing and draws attention to her life as a writer. Rickert has been long remembered as a medievalist, but she also contributed to American scholarship,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-27
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'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'
Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-26
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Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-26
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The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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