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This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-30
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included.This vision of colonization as...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-29
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For study or revision, these guides are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background and exam advice.Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) offer succinct and accessible coverage of all key aspects of the set text and are designed to...
Editeur :
Philip Allan
Parution :
2013-04-26
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Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-25
Collection :
Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-25
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new book is a major...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written from a literary perspective, the book explores the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
Collection :
Cultural Perception of Shakespeare
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The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009, divided into two parts, only apparently devoted to two different areas of linguistics but in fact constituting a coherent whole.The «cognitive» part is an inevitable consequence of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-24
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The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. This book...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-22
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-04-19
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Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
Collection :
Women and Writing
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Dieser Band geht auf die Konferenz «Interkulturalität und Kognition» zurück, die im Rahmen der Tagung der Gesellschaft ungarischer Germanistinnen und Germanisten (GUG) vom Institut für Germanistik der Universität Debrecen zwischen dem 29. und 30. Mai 2009 veranstaltet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-18
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This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
Collection :
Theory Now
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The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and information technology...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. A refreshing and accessible investigation...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-12
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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