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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
Parution :
2025-10-29
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Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century. This is a period that bears witness to the conservative-authoritarian turn in modernRussian politics and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-29
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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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2025-10-28
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In/Visible Subjects explores the cultural fascination with invisible characters in literature. While the concept of social invisibility is common in contemporary political discourse, there exists no comprehensive analysis of the history of the cultural metaphor of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England.
Cloth, broadly interpreted,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-27
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In una semplice piazza di paese, un oggetto elegante e frivolo come un ventaglio scatena una girandola di malintesi, pettegolezzi e passioni nascoste. La giovane Candida, per un capriccio, desidera disperatamente il ventaglio lasciato cadere dalla bella Geltruda. Quel...
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Cactus
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2025-11-01
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich Christian Krachts Ästhetik unter zwei Hauptaspekten: Zum einen hinsichtlich bisweilen irritierend verdrehter Aktualisierungen jener Selbstbezüglichkeit und Vorbehaltlichkeit, die seit Kant als ein zentraler Modus des Ästhetischen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-26
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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-06
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Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
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Abacus
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2016-04-07
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new...
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Wiley
Parution :
2015-12-21
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Blackwell Anthologies
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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
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The New Middle Ages
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies
Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
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Der Band knüpft an den ersten Teil vonDer Wille zur Wiederholung an, der den Untertitel Entzauberung und Faszination des Immergleichen in Literatur und Film trägt. Er widmet sich der Fiktion einer Spaltung: dem Widerspruch der Wiederholung eines Bildes in seinem...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-10-23
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Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a compelling case for reevaluating the writer's most overlooked body of work—his short fiction. While Fitzgerald...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-10-23
Collection :
The Life of the Author
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This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-21
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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 :
2025-10-21
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This book focuses on the synthetic and overall study of the history of literary theory, history of art or history of literary critics. Firstly, it proves itself a good combination of the history of thoughts of literature as well as thoughts of art.This book manages to...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-19
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This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork – the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair – in Victorian Britain. Hairwork became increasingly fashionable and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-19
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Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century. This is a period that bears witness to the conservative-authoritarian turn in modernRussian politics and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-16
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