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Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-12
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The New Middle Ages
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies
Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-23
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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 : 2025-08-05
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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 : 2025-08-05
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The Mayajala-sutra is a unique Buddhist sutra which is contained in the newly discovered manuscript of the Sanskrit Buddhist canonical collection called the Dirgha-agama (The Long Collection).The discovery of this Sanskrit manuscript in the 1990s was a major development...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Erzählen ist eine Alltagspraxis und zugleich eine Praxis, in der Alltag (re-)produziert wird. Denn dasErzählen im Alltag hat selten das wirklich Außergewöhnliche und Unerhörte zum Gegenstand. In der Regel dreht es sich um Gewöhnliches, um...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Since Dalit theatre has not garnered as much recognition as the other genres of Dalit literature have, this book, being one of the pioneering works in the field, aims to highlight the genre within the framework of Dalit literature and the Dalit Movement in India. ...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This book intervenes in the current discussion concerning so-called "minor" English literature of the late 1820s and early 1830s. Writing in the late Romantic period, this study charts the declining economic market for individual poetry volumes as other markets were...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Il presente volume propone una riflessione sul legame tra poesia e mare all’interno della produzione letteraria italiana e spagnola del secolo XX, cercando di recuperare, dalla lettura degli autori scelti, i segni di un’esperienza diretta con l’elemento, imprescindibile...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-07-31
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-30
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht in einer komparatistisch angelegten Studie literarische Werke, die Opioide thematisieren. Grundlage der Analyse sind die Texte »Confessions of an English Opium-Eater« (1821/22) von Thomas De Quincey, »Junky«...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2025-07-28
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) ist zweifellos einer der bedeutendsten und vielseitigsten Theoretiker der Aufklärung. Die Wirkung seines politischen, soziologischen, moralphilosophischen, pädagogischen, linguistischen, botanischen und kompositorischen Werks erstreckte...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2025-07-25
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 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,...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 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...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-16
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