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This book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, «the British Sartre», as The Times put it. He was a central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close intellectual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This book explores the extraordinarily violent and abusive nature of Stephen Donaldson’s male protagonists. Thomas Covenant of The Chronicles is a leper, rotten and physically collapsing. In Mordant’s Need and The Gap series the male characters are moral lepers. The Gap...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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This book explores the remarkable diaries and memoirs of Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) and Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829), both of whom lived in Ireland. Working on the premise that their identities are literary constructions, the author investigates the cultural and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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The title of this volume illustrates the significance of margins and the instability of demarcation in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro.The author approaches Ishiguro’s writings as a corpus rather than separate units, examining the novels to illuminate their generic,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Describing the Irish as ‘female’ and ‘bestial’ is a practice dating back to the twelfth century, while for women, inside and outside of Ireland, their association with children, animals and other ‘savages’ has had a long history. A link among systems of oppression has...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-01-14
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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK “Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.” Thomas Corns, Bangor University The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-11
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience?...
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Quercus
Parution :
2011-01-06
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-28
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In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’ Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-23
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Welches Bild vom Autor Walther von der Vogelweide hatte sein mittelalterliches Publikum? Dieser Frage geht die Untersuchung ausgehend von den in der Kleinen Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (A) überlieferten Liedern und Spruchtönen nach und arbeitet das Profil des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Politik und Literatur bilden die zentralen Aspekte im Leben und Werk des Reporters und Schriftstellers Egon Erwin Kisch. In keinem anderen seiner Werke lassen sich die Verbindung dieser beiden Aspekte, seine Doppelrolle als politischer Aktivist und als Literat sowie die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Suizidgeschichten einzuleiten ist wahrscheinlich sinnlos. Nur in medias res, unter dem vollen Gewicht der Tat und vielleicht im Nachhinein, kann man sie am besten verstehen. Dieser Essay enthält biographische Angaben zu 423 Schriftstellern und Schriftstellerinnen, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature. Breaking free...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-21
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Bis heute ist der Begriff Theater des Absurden, den Martin Esslin 1961 in seinem gleichnamigen Standardwerk prägte, umstritten. Als Ergänzung wird in dieser Arbeit die Bezeichnung Drama des Skandals und der Angst vorgeschlagen. Trotz unterschiedlicher kultureller...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, and accessible account of a new direction for critical practice, from one of Britain's most prominent literary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-09
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A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-07
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Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-07
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