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George C. Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and associated Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-04
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Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to develop 'the art of spectatorship', this major new study explores...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-04
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Wie wurden Klassiker wie Schiller, Goethe Kleist, Büchner, Kafka, Brecht und Handke in Italien, z. B. von Dichtern wie Edoardo Sanguineti und Dramaturgen wie Cesare Lievi, übersetzt und auf den italienischen Bühnen aufgeführt?Wie wurden Goldoni, Fausto Paravidino oder...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-07-03
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This book explores a wide range of twentieth and twenty-first century international fiction that engages with the Holocaust and its historical legacy. It examines the use of tropes of crime and detection in the representation of historical atrocity in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-02
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This book describes how Christian sacred geographies were represented in Victorian literature. It demonstrates first how those from the Hebrew Bible and the Old and New Testaments had become politically domesticated and psychologically internalised to sustain the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-02
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Der Nordseeraum ist bis heute ein Faszinosum: vom Mythos des untergegangen Rungholt über den noch immer spukenden Schimmelreiter Hauke Haien bis zur einzigartigen, amphibischen Welt der Halligen. Die vorliegende literaturwissenschaftliche Studie erschließt...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-07-01
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The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature.The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-01
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Modernist literature is defined by entropic characteristics. Its common themes include fragmentation, uncertainty, distrust, and misunderstanding. Alongside these themes, however, exists a desire to rebuild, to distill elements of past constructs into something that can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-30
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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-30
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Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen. Ähnliches geschieht, wenn die Kanzone aus dem altokzitanischen Sprachraum oder das Sonett von...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-06-25
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This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found in children's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-24
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This book sets out to answer why genre matters when analysing sagas, medieval literature, and creation in general. How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas applies theoretical observations on the workings of genre to saga literature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-17
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This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies. Taylor examines how fossil fuels have frequently been described as the lifeblood of capitalist modernity, making petroleum appear as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-13
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This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-11
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The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the “wanderings” or Apologos of Odysseus, Chapter 3 explores the “lying tales” told by Odysseus in disguise upon...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-11
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This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese literature. Developed from a series of lectures at the Shanghai Library, the text features insights from ten prominent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-10
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'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.'
One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-06
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The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus.The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative patterns....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-05
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'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.'
One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-05
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Open Secrets examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-06-04
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