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In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the well-known fairy tale...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Can it now be doubted that Native American/First Nations literary voice has become other than an established, and hugely compelling, compass? Native North American Authorship takes bearings, a roster of close readings yet situated within the wider latitudes and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-15
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This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. Ashok Vajpeyi is a poet who is at home with the word. He speaks to the mortals and the divinities. He makes the mystery of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. Ashok Vajpeyi is a poet who is at home with the word. He speaks to the mortals and the divinities. He makes the mystery of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Dieser Band vereint empirische und theoretische Beiträge, die literar- und medienästhetisches Lernen unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Perspektivik in ihren verschiedenen Dimensionen erforschen: Wie perspektivieren literarische Texte Figuren und Räume und welche Impulse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-15
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In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806. The Memoirs were a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-12
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This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
Collection :
Renewing the American Narrative
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This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
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In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ‘Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
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In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
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Gerichtsprozesse wie der NSU-Prozess haben große mediale Aufmerksamkeit erfahren und sind zum Stoff von zahlreichen Theaterinszenierungen geworden. Solche publikumswirksamen ‚Schau-Prozesse‘ zeigen, wie Gericht und Theater zu Bühnen des Politischen werden. Dabei wird...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-08
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I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead...
Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
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This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
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Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both ofShakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-08
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Die Untersuchung fokussiert die funktionelle Distribution einzelner Dativstrukturen im Russischen und Tschechischen und die damit einhergehende und durch die Slavistik wenig erforschte Frage nach möglichen kausalen Zusammenhängen innerhalb des Systems dativischer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-08
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Dante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-05
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This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
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This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in contemporary British children’s fiction. The study ties together findings from pragmatics, language acquisition research,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between family structures and narrative structure in the nineteenth-century novel. Comparing Russia and England, it argues that the two nations had fundamentally different conceptions of the family and that these,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
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