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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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Perceiving More than Perception
Given that, by c. 1766, Blake had experienced ‘his first vision’ of ‘bright angelic wings bespangling … like stars,’ and, by c. 1809, in middle age,...
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Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children’s Literature
In this chapter, I argue, first, that in key contributions to scientific Child Study precocity is vilified to an extent that exceeds all but the most...
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Conclusion
The Conclusion uses two famous essays by Robert Louis Stevenson as a filter through which to summarise the argument of the monograph. It outlines the...
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English Women Catholic Translators
The concept of a linear transmission of source to target text was inherited from the humanist theory of the translatio studii, the transfer of an...
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Trye, Mary
Mary Trye, daughter of chemical physician Thomas O’Dowde, was a practicing physician in Pall Mall, London. Trye and her father were not...
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Kultur und Medien
Das französischeCivilisationfrançaise Konkurrenzdenken in Bezug zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, eines der wesentlichen Kennzeichen der...