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This book explores the relationship between Anne Brontë’s work and the life and writings of Lord Byron. Byron’s influence on the other Brontë siblings is well-documented but absent in Anne’s history. Building on recent discourses of rich intertextuality in Anne’s work,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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Edith Wharton’s sensitively observed portraits of women’s lives a century ago resonate into the present day, captivating readers now as they did then. Threaded throughout her accounts is a rich seam of secrets and silences that reveals Wharton’s keen grasp of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classical Epic provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of key debates and case studies centered the translation of Greek...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-10
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?'
Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English. Many rituals, so-called rites of passage in particular, are strongly associated with the changing status of individuals as members of a family unit....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-10
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The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-05
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'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?'
Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-05
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This book explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-03
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Comics und Graphic Novels als Unterrichtsgegenstände sind bislang wenig etabliert, obgleich sie ein breites Spektrum an Möglichkeiten für eine unterrichtliche Auseinandersetzung bieten. Der vorliegende Band lotet diese didaktischen Perspektiven aus. In den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies. It demonstrates that the hunting and killing of animals was (and still is) a highly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North. It offers a comparative framework which underlines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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This is the first fully annotated edition of The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (previously known as Table Talk) since 1892, the very first based on a critical scrutiny of twenty-one surviving manuscripts, fifteen more than any previous editor knew existed.This expanded...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Distraction is now too easily and often considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life.Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, and—most disturbingly of all for the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-26
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Fiktionalität ist ein Bewußtseinsphänomen. Anders als in den zahlreichen bereits zur Verfügung stehenden Studien wird das Fiktionale hier aufgefaßt als eine spezifische Projektionsleistung durch das menschliche Bewußtsein – des Textproduzenten wie des Rezipienten. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This collection concentrates on the secondary works of Louisa May Alcott and looks at the idea that Alcott was as heavily influenced by her times as by her transcendentalist upbringing. Her work often subverts the conventional and includes the new, the practical, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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This book argues that the revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, and post-revolutionary dialectics in modern Chinese history since the early-20th century characterizes modern and contemporary Chinese literature the most. Central to these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Ellipsen stellen eine sprachliche Form dar, die wiederkehrend und mit erkennbaren ästhetischen Funktionen in literarischen Texten vorzufinden ist. Doch um welche Arten von ästhetischen Funktionen handelt es sich dabei genau? Diese Frage steht im Zentrum der vorliegenden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites the reader to view classical antiquity through the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel who engaged...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-19
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This book explores the connections between space and narrative through an in-depth analysis of the fourteenth-century Middle English Breton lays. The work employs a range of critical approaches pertaining to the spatial turn and geocriticism and presents a nuanced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-18
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This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism. It discusses the representative works of authors, Wang Anyi,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-17
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