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What do the works of Thomas Hardy offer us apart from tragedy? This book intends to answer that question, providing a groundbreaking reading of Hardy’s poetry that reveals a hitherto critically neglected optimism. In doing so it seeks to challenge the dominant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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Flüsse sind ein elementares Ökosystem, das von Folgen des Klimawandels und Artensterbens wie menschlichen Eingriffen bedroht ist. Indes –Flüsse wehren sich: treten über die Ufer, trocknen aus, eingedämmt, begradigt und entschlämmt...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book explores the spatiality of post-World War II Australian society through the vehicle of David Ireland’s literature. Employing concepts from radical geography and structural Marxist literary theory, it posits the existence of a spatial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critical and alternative imaginary of war and displacement in their...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-29
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The volume delves into the provocative terrain of escape as a mode of resistance. Through a diverse array of studies encompassing political theology and artificial intelligence, the author navigates the philosophical landscape of exiting established forms of knowledge...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the generative capacities of language,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book offers a critical introduction to comparative literature. It reviews the origin and development of comparative literature and explores from a theoretical perspective the contributions of prominent Chinese scholars in history such as Lin Shu, Yan Fu, Gu...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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This book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class literature. It explores both the historically and geographically varied nature of the relationship between working-class literatures and national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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"All real art," wrote William Morris, "is ornamental." If Morris is right, then ornament is not, as some would have it, a triviality, a sign of "want," or a crime. Instead, Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real argues for the many and varied ways in which the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-22
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This volume offers a new perspective on the Zagros region literary tradition. Gurani literature boasts a collection of the region’s oldest oral and written literary traditions. Despite its significance, the repertoire and its essential function in the preservation...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This edited volume comprehensively explores narrative survival in Indigenous film and literature, forging a literary and transitional approach to native writing. It navigates the evolution of Indigenous voices, spanning the oral tradition and literary forms from...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This book unearths a forgotten history of exchange and enlightenment between China and the West, told through vivid examples drawn from the world of poetry, the philosophy of culture and religion, and the realm of international communication. Across chapters that cover...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit Lettern- und Lautgedichten machte er sich in den 1950er Jahren in seiner Heimat Wien zum Außenseiter, fand jedoch rasch Anerkennung in den Zentren der Konkreten Poesie in Stuttgart,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-18
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Even after he achieved world-wide fame through books such as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Screwtape Letters, the Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis – often regarded as uncomplicatedly English by critics and the general public – proudly and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-14
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Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year is a charming collection of 366 quotes and short passages drawn fromJane Austen's novels, with excerpts from her intimate, witty letters scattered throughout. This book is perfect for reading or sharing and brings you passages from...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2025-08-14
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The thesis of the book is that in the early modern period, literature claimed precedence over the observation of nature. There were shifts through phases of temporary parity, the priority of natural sciences in the 19th century, and their critique by literature in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-14
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Thomas Mann ist bekannt für die enge Verknüpfung seines Werks und seiner Selbstinszenierung mit Deutschland, seiner Kultur und Literatur. Weniger beachtet wurde hingegen, dass er diese Bezüge zunehmend in einen internationalen Kontext stellte und gezielt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-13
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This book moves the field of study of Arab women’s writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the “bravery” that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Der vorliegende Open Access-Band leuchtet den Zusammenhang von Übersetzung und Raum in spezifisch frühneuzeitlichen Untersuchungssettings exemplarisch aus. Dazu setzt er von zwei Seiten an: Erstens fragen Beiträge aus Germanistik, Judaistik, Latinistik...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Graham Greene in the 1930s presents a major new reading of Greene’s literary works and critical writings from the 1930s, a period of increasing academic interest and importance. Greene’s works from this period encompass a wide range of forms, genres and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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