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'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?'
Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-24
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Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-24
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The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Ireland and Turkey can be seen as a period marked by competing visions for self-governance. Political oppression, social decline, and repeated uprisings inspired many committed writers to promote a sense of collective...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-07-23
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This volume represents a significant scholarly contribution to the field of instructional pragmatics by exploring teaching and learning pragmatics at primary, secondary and tertiary level, advocating for a paradigm shift toward multilingual and inclusive approaches in...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-07-23
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More than any other academic discipline, literary studies is the creation of print culture. How then can it thrive in the digital era? Early 1990s predictions of the book's imminent demise presented a simplistic either/or choice between the legacy of moribund print and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-18
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Rilke ist auch ein Jahrhundert nach seinem Tod noch eine unverwechselbare Gestalt: durch seine ebenso kunstvolle wie kühne Art zu schreiben, die ihn zu einem der großen Autoren des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts gemacht hat, und durch seinen Versuch,...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-07-17
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Seit einiger Zeit erleben semifiktionale Erzählungen in Weblogs, der Twitteratur und weiteren Erzählformaten in den sozialen Medien sowie in historisch-fiktionalen Texten und Filmen eine starke Konjunktur. Der Reiz, die Potentiale, aber zugleich auch die...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-07-17
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This book extends our understanding of Lord Byron's poetry--as opposed to his life and legend--by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poems, be they lyrics, four cantos of poetic travelogue in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, narrative poems set in the Middle...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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George C. Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and associated Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to develop 'the art of spectatorship', this major new study explores...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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This book provides a groundbreaking approach to creative writing theory, offering a comprehensive exploration of its core principles and methodologies. Focusing on creative writing as an ontological practice, it redefines the essence of literature and writing, while...
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Springer
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2025-07-14
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Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes holds a renowned position in the history of modernism across various arts. The company's daring productions brought together leading artists working in diverse fields - from Igor Stravinsky to Pablo Picasso, from Bronislava Nijinska to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-14
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The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature.The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-14
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This book serves as a critical examination of contemporary American literature by examining David Foster Wallace's incorporation of corporeal narrative techniques in his novels, with a particular focus on The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King. By...
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Springer
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2025-07-13
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The Egyptian Gothic consists of novels and short stories about ancient Egyptian mummies returning to life to seek retribution or romance as well as cursed object tales. Now mostly forgotten, from the 1880s through to the 1920s it was more popular than the vampire...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-13
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This volume seeks to address questions of urban crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that foregrounds the particular roles that literature and the creative arts play in both conceptualizing and addressing the multiple challenges facing cities. Noting that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-11
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The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms of its capacity to involve audiences in the construction of meaning, not only on an affective but also on an intellectual level. Afroditi Angelopoulou argues...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-09
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Einer der bekanntesten Schauspieler des deutschsprachigen Raumes um 1900, der Dramatiker, Regisseur und Filmschauspieler Rudolf Rittner, war gleichzeitig einer der besten Freunde Gerhart Hauptmanns und mit vielen Prominenten um 1900 wie Arthur Schnitzler, Hermann Bahr,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-08
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"All real art," wrote William Morris, "is ornamental." If Morris is right, then ornament is not, as some would have it, a triviality, a sign of "want," or a crime. Instead, Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real argues for the many and varied ways in which the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-07
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