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British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-28
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Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-28
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Vorstellungen von der Zukunft bestimmen das menschliche Handeln. In energiewirtschaftlichen Fragen sind solche Antizipationen besonders relevant: Staaten beschließen Förderprogramme, Unternehmen errichten Kraftwerke, Privatpersonen füllen ihre Öltanks oder...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-06-27
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Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft
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Märchen stellen eine der bekanntesten Literatur- und Erzählformen dar. Ihre Typologie, Geschichte und ihre vielfältigen literarischen und weiteren medialen Erscheinungsformen sind Gegenstand einer oft schon unüberschaubaren Forschung. Das Handbuch bietet einen Überblick...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-06-27
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-27
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« La vieillesse, c’est ce qui arrive aux gens qui deviennent vieux ; impossible d’enfermer cette pluralité d’expériences dans un concept ou même une notion. » (Simone de Beauvoir, La vieillesse, Livre II, 11). Dans cet ouvrage, des chercheurs de différents horizons...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-06-27
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This book aims to provide a detailed study of young adult fiction concentrating on Mexican teenage (im)migrants to the United States and their search for identity. In its quest to define young adult (im)migration literature as a genre, the first chapter combines and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-06-27
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This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors across the colonial,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-26
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«Stages of Madness is an important new study of the representation of madness on the early modern English stage. Rigorously researched yet also highly readable, Andrew J. Power’s book provides original and compelling close readings of early modern plays such as The...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-26
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Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-26
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This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-24
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Questo volume offre un accompagnamento alla lettura di Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) attraverso saggi che affrontano – da punti di vista diversi – diciassette dei molti libri pubblicati dall’autore siciliano. Si compone così un moderno e aggiornato Companion sciasciano,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2023-06-21
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Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-19
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This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-19
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In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than previous...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-18
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This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime. Building on the author’s previous monograph Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory and discourse in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-17
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The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings. But when did we learn that we live in an environment? While scholars have often located the emergence of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-15
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"Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? This book starts at the Paris Morgue and takes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-14
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During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time, this radical...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-14
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Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-14
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