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swoon/swu?n/verb1. faint, especially from extreme emotion. 'The girl swooned and had to lie down'2. be overcome with adoration, or other strong emotion. 'She was swooning over Him'Etymology traces to the Old English word 'geswogen', meaning 'overcome'On the eve of her...
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Corsair
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2026-03-05
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'I marvel at Ada Limón's ability to weave on the page her playfulness and wisdom. Her lyricism dances. This is the poetry of a tender and compassionate human' Joan Baez'Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón's...
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Corsair
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2026-03-05
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Offers a reader-friendly guide to reading, understanding, and appreciating Pope today Alexander Pope’s words echo across centuries, woven into the fabric of everyday English. Phrases such as “to err is human” and “hope springs eternal” have long since left the pages of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2026-03-01
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The Life of the Author
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Contemporary media ecosystems are deeply entangled with algorithms, which play an increasingly pervasive role in shaping our environment and mediating our perception of reality. This book aims to provide a critical map of a rapidly evolving mediascape in which humans,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-18
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"This excellent volume—the first book-length study in English on Despentes’s writing—is rich, timely and insightful. Schaal’s rigorous analysis contextualises Despentes’s work carefully in relation to contemporary writing and thought, highlighting its intersections with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-02-13
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This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical, dialogical, and sustainable approaches to developing children’s literature in university classrooms. Its core pillars—environmental...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-08
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Questo primo di tre volumi di Scritti 1975-2025 di Franco Marucci ripresenta saggi interpretativi estratti dalla sua Storia della letteratura inglese, uscita dal 2003 al 2018 con innovativi criteri manualistici e ladozione di aggiornati strumenti critici. Il punto di...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2026-02-06
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This book presents a theoretical framework for hermeneutic musical analysis, enriched with numerous practical examples. Joan Grimalt’s latest work emphasises discursive and dramaturgical dimensions, grounded in hermeneutical principles. Building on his previous...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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A year of firsts, feats, and fortitudes. All in one remarkable year - in 2024-25, India clinched its maiden ICC Women's Cricket World Cup win; the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in Paschim Bardhaman District, West Bengal, rolled out 700 locomotives; the nation...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2026-01-15
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This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, available for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658). The first two volumes are by Abdul-Hamid Lahauri, and the third volume, now printed for the first time, is by Muhammad Waris. Since it is a court chronicle,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Presents a personal and thematic journey through English literature from Chaucer to the present Chapter and Verse: A Reader's History of English Literature offers a compelling reimagining of literary history—one that places the reader's experience at the heart of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-12-24
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The Holocaust, one of history’s darkest chapters, not only annihilated millions but also shattered the human conscience. Amidst this devastation, women bore unique and often overlooked forms of suffering—subjected to forced deportation, sexual violence, and the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-18
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The Holocaust was a pan-continental event with a global impact: the evolution of its memory is, similarly, both pan-European and globally wider. This collection, stemming from a discipline-leading international project, explores the growth and change of Holocaust...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-12-16
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‘A true Caribbeanist, James Arnold has long been a vital critical presence. These essays bear testimony to a remarkable career and to the hallmarks of Arnold’s scholarship: its extraordinary erudition; and the subtle but determined anticolonialism that motivates the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
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Abacus
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Tres temas convergentes nos interesan: las mujeres, sus vidas en la frontera y sus escrituras autobiográficas. Entre ellas se encuentran Melinda Rankin con Twenty Years among the Mexicans. A narrative of Missionary Labor; Angelina Elizondo de García Naranjo con sus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-12-05
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The book stems from an interdisciplinary and transdiscursive approach to describe Polish masculinities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with the "new masculinity" that has become increasingly distinct in the early twenty-first century. A collection of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-27
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