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Theorizing Literature Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis
This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the...
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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
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Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates...
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec Ways of Belonging
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary...
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Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf Spatiality and Cultural Politics
This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural...
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Words to the Wives The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity
This book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapiro focuses on two women’s...
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German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present Controversies, Positions, Perspectives
This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together...
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The Politics of Literary History Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and...
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Gottfried Keller – Spielräume der Phantasie
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus dem Nachlass, gehen seinen Träumen...
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Neues von der Insel Englische Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit in deutscher Übersetzung
Ein interdisziplinärer Band im Open-Access: Die Aufwertung der Volkssprachen in der Frühen Neuzeit führte zu einer Intensivierung und internationalen...
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Franz Kafkas literarisches Umfeld in Prag 14 Portraits von Oskar Baum bis Franz Werfel
Franz Kafka pflegte zu Lebzeiten intensive gesellige und intellektuelle Kontakte, die teils mit bekannten Namen verbunden, teils nahezu vergessen...
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Heine-Jahrbuch 2023
2023 erscheint der 62. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen Symposiums „Heinrich Heine und die...
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Der deutschsprachige Thriller Entwicklung und Ausformungen eines populären Genres
Dieses Buch bietet einen ersten wissenschaftlichen Überblick über einen bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der deutschsprachigen Kriminalliteratur, der...
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Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D’Annunzio Modernist Playwrights
Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D’Annunzio: Modernist Playwrightschallenges the general resistance in scholarship and queer studies to approach...
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English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution
This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global...
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The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s fiction, scientific texts, and...
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Office and Duty in King Lear Shakespeare’s Political Theologies
This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean...
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Fundamentals of Literary Theory
This monograph offers new insights into the fundamentals of literary theory. It synthesizes and evaluates research from recent decades, critically...