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Textile Shakespeare


Hester Lees-Jeffries


Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth, broadly interpreted,...

Parution : 2025-11-11
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Lessing and the Consequences
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Lessing and the Consequences


Robert Vellusig


The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold, paving the way for Weimar Classicism without walking it himself. Lessing is the ‘pre-classicist’ of German literature, praised and...

Parution : 2025-11-07
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Wounded Knights
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Wounded Knights


Alfred Thomas


This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages....

Parution : 2025-11-07
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Look Closer
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Look Closer


Robert Douglas-Fairhurst


'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRY'A glittering gem of a book' NATALIE HAYNESA joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs an English literature professor, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has...

Parution : 2025-11-06
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Ruin Ecology
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Ruin Ecology


Marco Malvestio


This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins, much more than those that served as constituents of Romantic and Gothic aesthetics, simultaneously express a fascination with and a dread of the non-human...

Parution : 2025-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Milton's Strenuous Liberty
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Milton's Strenuous Liberty


Tobias Gregory


What motivated John Milton? Amidst his shifting concerns, which ones moved him most deeply? These are the animating questions of Milton's Strenuous Liberty. Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's priorities as a heterodox, godly, lay intellectual, arguing...

Parution : 2025-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama


Sheiba Kian Kaufman


Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations ofPersian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of...

Parution : 2025-10-31
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Dark Modernity
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Dark Modernity


Yoichiro Miyamoto , Hans-Peter Rodenberg


Since Shmuel Eisenstadt published his ground-breaking concept of multiple modernities, there have been various scholarly attempts to free the term modernity from its narrow Eurocentric origins. In line with this, the essays on literature, art and film by Japanese and...

Parution : 2025-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetry and the Sense of Reversal
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Poetry and the Sense of Reversal


William D. Melaney


How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of...

Parution : 2025-10-31
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel
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The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel


Julie A. Buckler , Justin Weir


The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Major Russian novelists such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nabokov continue to be popular and to carry intellectual prestige. But the tradition of the Russian novel...

Parution : 2025-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France
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Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France


Susan Harrow


Today's world of e-mails, text messages, and social media posts reminds us that letter-writing is an age-old practice that has continually re-invented itself culturally and contextually, connecting individuals and creating communities that may be local or global,...

Parution : 2025-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Attention
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Attention


Anne Enright


The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life'Anne Enright might just be Ireland’s greatest living writer'The Times'One of the most gifted writers working in English today' Jennifer...

Parution : 2025-10-30
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Prison and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Prison and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain


Lucy Powell


Drawing on an array of literary, penological, archival, and visual sources, this study explores the abundance of prison scenes in the eighteenth-century British novel. Revealing the four distinct prison cultures of the period, it illuminates how the narrative and...

Parution : 2025-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect
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Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect


Simon Wortham


This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the ambivalent resonance of politics in all its forms—cultural politics, sexual politics, class politics—both in his own time and,...

Parution : 2025-10-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—
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From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—


Dorothy Driver , Olive Schreiner


"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it." Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only&#8212, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of...

Parution : 2025-10-29
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  In/Visible Subjects
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In/Visible Subjects


Gero Guttzeit


In/Visible Subjects explores the cultural fascination with invisible characters in literature. While the concept of social invisibility is common in contemporary political discourse, there exists no comprehensive analysis of the history of the cultural metaphor of...

Parution : 2025-10-28
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Der Wille zur Wiederholung II
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Der Wille zur Wiederholung II


Santiago Contardo , Noëlle Miller , Jörg Türschmann


Der Band knüpft an den ersten Teil vonDer Wille zur Wiederholung an, der den Untertitel Entzauberung und Faszination des Immergleichen in Literatur und Film trägt. Er widmet sich der Fiktion einer Spaltung: dem Widerspruch der Wiederholung eines Bildes in seinem...

Parution : 2025-10-23
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Éditeur : Springer VS
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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Thomas Fahy


Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a compelling case for reevaluating the writer's most overlooked body of work—his short fiction. While Fitzgerald...

Parution : 2025-10-23
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Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Collection : The Life of the Author
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Télécharger le livre :  Meaning Making With Picture Books
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Meaning Making With Picture Books


Debra Donnelly , Heather Sharp


This book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics...

Parution : 2025-10-21
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Chinese History of Literary Theory in Pre-Qin Period
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The Chinese History of Literary Theory in Pre-Qin Period


Changbao Guo , Shan Li , Chunqing Li , Shaojin Liu


This book focuses on the synthetic and overall study of the history of literary theory, history of art or history of literary critics. Firstly, it proves itself a good combination of the history of thoughts of literature as well as thoughts of art.This book manages to...

Parution : 2025-10-19
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Éditeur : Springer
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