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Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-07-26
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People's War" to the "People's Peace," this book shows that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Buchs diskutieren das Verständnis von Rhetorik, mit dem heute in Literatur- und Rechtswissenschaft gearbeitet wird. Sie beleuchten, inwiefern sich die westliche Tradition von rhetorischen Perspektiven aus anderen Sprach-, Kultur- und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Der Umgang mit erzählenden Texten und Medien spielt im Deutschunterricht eine zentrale Rolle. Dabei sollen Schüler/innen lernen, deren Darstellungsverfahren wahrzunehmen, sie mithilfe eines adäquaten Begriffsinstrumentariums zu beschreiben und ihre ästhetische Wirkung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-25
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue--in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research in Chinese writing. It covers recent trends such as cross-media practices, pedagogy in creative writing in China,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-22
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This book analyzes the various ways of coming to terms with the Emmett Till case in US fiction. The 1955 lynching of the fourteen-year-old black youth in the Mississippi Delta raised a cultural trauma in the US collective imaginary that particularly pierced the African...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-07-21
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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to medio-translatology, including its historical and literary setting, its core concept, and its practice and theory. Medio-translatology, inspired by scholarship in comparative literature and the “cultural turn” in Western...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-20
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Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of his most celebrated plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1622), The Lovers' Melancholy (1628), and The Broken Heart (1629), as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-20
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An elegant and thorough examination of the riches of Sangam poetryIn this acclaimed comparative study, K. Kailasapathy, the celebrated Sri Lankan academic and critic, introduces and interprets ancient Tamil poems and examines the stylistic heritage, themes and motifs...
Editeur :
Hachette India
Parution :
2023-07-19
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This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-19
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Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century.
Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-18
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-17
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Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist ohne das Migrationsphänomen kaum zu denken, das an seiner Aktualität bis heute nichts verloren hat. Rasante Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Technologie, Kommunikation und Transport in den 1990er Jahren fu¨hren zu sozialen, kulturellen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-07-14
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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 :
2023-07-14
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-13
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Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of his most celebrated plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1622), The Lovers' Melancholy (1628), and The Broken Heart (1629), as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-13
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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People's War" to the "People's Peace," this book shows that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-12
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