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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Major Russian novelists such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nabokov continue to be popular and to carry intellectual prestige. But the tradition of the Russian novel...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-10-31
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Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a compelling case for reevaluating the writer's most overlooked body of work—his short fiction. While Fitzgerald...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2025-10-23
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The Life of the Author
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This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-10-21
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This book focuses on the synthetic and overall study of the history of literary theory, history of art or history of literary critics. Firstly, it proves itself a good combination of the history of thoughts of literature as well as thoughts of art.This book manages to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-10-19
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This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork – the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair – in Victorian Britain. Hairwork became increasingly fashionable and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-10-19
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Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century. This is a period that bears witness to the conservative-authoritarian turn in modernRussian politics and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-16
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This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. As inheritors of the Enlightenment's emphasis on scientific...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-15
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This is the first book-length study of Covid fictions in Britain. It argues that although it was common to see the Covid-19 pandemic as a state of exception, that is, as a unique emergency for which there was no precedent, it is misleading to treat the experience of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-10-15
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Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England.
Cloth, broadly interpreted,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-15
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'We have to-morrow
Bright before us
Like a flame'
The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together into a seamless statement of Black agency in the arts and humanities that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-14
Format(s) : ePub
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Provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of literary criticism from antiquity to the present Spanning more than two millennia of intellectual history, Literary Criticism from Plato to Post-Theory: An Introduction offers the most thorough and accessible survey...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2025-10-14
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The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted to the teaching of art all contributed to very public and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-10
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Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, it shows how his works spoke back to the Founders' competing...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-10-10
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Provides a student-friendly introduction to World Literature Bridging the gap between introductory materials and advanced scholarly research, the Concise Companion to World Literature offers a streamlined selection of the most popular and essential essays from The...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2025-10-09
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Die deutschsprachige Gegenwartslyrik zeichnet sich durch eine intensive Rezeption und Aktualisierung des Barocks aus, deren historische Verbindungslinien die Beiträge in ihren Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten, Diachronien und Anachronien nachzeichnen....
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2025-10-09
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Übersetzungen enthalten per se ein Moment der Verunsicherung – so die These der in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze. Indem sie Unbekanntes zugänglich machen, ermöglichenÜbersetzungen zwar einerseits Verständigung und wirken...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2025-10-09
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"C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorizing the Other traces how the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy achieved global recognition through the writings and advocacy of E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Stephen...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
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A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel. These...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
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Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright's dramatic reinvention of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a wide range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations ofPersian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
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