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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-16
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Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-16
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De forma assaz enfática, e muito consciente, o mundo medieval representa-se a simesmo, nas suas múltiplas práticas sociais e estético-culturais, através da figuraçãoanimal. Pela mão de um assinalável conjunto de especialistas, esta obra faz-nos,assim, recuar a um tempo...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-08-16
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Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-08-15
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Decolonizing the Curriculum
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'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.'
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-15
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'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.'
One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-15
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In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-12
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The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide,The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-09
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This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-06
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Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period through its popular verse forms and their surrounding social and media landscape. The volume offers insight into two central concepts of both theVictorian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-04
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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature.This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-04
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A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book ClubChosen by Poetry Book Society as their special commendation'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-08-03
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This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also explores how literary practices and imagination are shaping new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-02
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Edmund Husserl’s ideas, informed by Kant’s Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and subjectivity. In his “Phänomenologie und Egologie” (1961/63), Jan Broekman revealed how Husserl analysed the “Split Ego” notion in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-01
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This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-31
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This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept of barbarism from the eighteenth century to the present and highlights its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative and interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-31
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Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-27
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The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide,The Renaissance of the Saints after Reform recovers the surprisingly long theatrical life of the saints from a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-27
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British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-27
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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words.
Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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