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This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-09-11
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Provides an authoritative treatment of the life, work, and legacy of Charles Dickens A Companion to Charles Dickens is an essential resource for understanding one of the most celebrated authors in English literature. This extensively revised edition features a wealth of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-09-11
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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An ideal introduction and a reliable guide for students and teachers of European literature Uniquely broad in both geographic and chronological scope, A History of European Literature introduces students to the origins, influences, and historical development of European...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-09-05
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Auf der Basis eines multidimensionalen, offenen und fluiden Kulturbegriffs analysieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes eine repräsentative Auswahl deutschsprachiger Romane, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten entstanden sind und sich mit dem Themenkomplex der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-05
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'[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her' Kaveh Akbar, Electric Literature'This is a stunning book' Jericho Brown'A...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2025-09-04
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This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900–1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with American culture, and traces the evolution of their identities through...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-02
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“Writing Now offers razor sharp historicisation of contemporary cultural sensibilities emerging in Australia’s middlebrow fiction. Lucidly written, meticulously researched and carefully argued, Ricker’s book provides essential guidance to students and scholars in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-02
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Violence is one of the most persistently repeated subjects in various discourses from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it has led to serious ontological disquisitions. When it comes to the treatment of violence in drama, there has never been anyone more...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-09-01
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The volume delves into the provocative terrain of escape as a mode of resistance. Through a diverse array of studies encompassing political theology and artificial intelligence, the author navigates the philosophical landscape of exiting established forms of knowledge...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-29
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This volume offers a new perspective on the Zagros region literary tradition. Gurani literature boasts a collection of the region’s oldest oral and written literary traditions. Despite its significance, the repertoire and its essential function in the preservation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This edited volume comprehensively explores narrative survival in Indigenous film and literature, forging a literary and transitional approach to native writing. It navigates the evolution of Indigenous voices, spanning the oral tradition and literary forms from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year is a charming collection of 366 quotes and short passages drawn fromJane Austen's novels, with excerpts from her intimate, witty letters scattered throughout. This book is perfect for reading or sharing and brings you passages from...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2025-08-14
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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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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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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...
Editeur :
Springer
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
Parution :
2025-07-13
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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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Wie wurden Klassiker wie Schiller, Goethe Kleist, Büchner, Kafka, Brecht und Handke in Italien, z. B. von Dichtern wie Edoardo Sanguineti und Dramaturgen wie Cesare Lievi, übersetzt und auf den italienischen Bühnen aufgeführt?Wie wurden Goldoni, Fausto Paravidino oder...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-03
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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...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2016-04-07
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