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Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-02-16
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2018-02-13
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This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-29
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This monograph examines how higher education(HE) institutions construct ‘professional identities’ in the classroom, specifically how dominant discourses in institutions frame the social role, requisite skills and character required to practice a profession, and how...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-27
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The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-24
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Shakespeare’s Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial inns, guild halls...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-02
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The Beat Generation questioned mid-twentieth century America and sought the margins of society. This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat authors Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg in regard to Victor Turner’s anthropological...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-12-29
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This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-12-29
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With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove.
Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-12-08
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The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-11-29
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Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-29
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Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-10
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Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent’s end of the American West, Jeffers’ poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Ein Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik findet trotz kritischer bildungspolitischer Entwicklungen für das Französische bisher kaum statt. Um diese Zusammenarbeit zu etablieren, wählten die Herausgeberinnen für die Beiträge dieses Bandes ein innovatives...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing onGreece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-24
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics. In particular the contributed chapters introduce advanced techniques and concepts from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-20
Collection :
Computational Music Science
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In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great men, women and mystical creatures to arise, influence and shape the course of its history. Here in this book, Tolkien...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2017-10-20
Collection :
Tolkien
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