Close Reading – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Nathan Wainstein
Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel

What does it mean for a modernist novel to fail?Modernism famously celebrates rupture, difficulty, and deviance from literary norms--but that very embrace of formal experimentation creates a paradox: how …

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Willem A. M. Beuken,
Seal the Instruction Among My Disciples

Forschungen zum Alten Testament

This volume brings together forty essays by Willem A. M. Beuken spanning more than four decades of scholarship on the book of Isaiah. Interacting widely with the best of both classic and contemporary scho…

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Vasugi Kailasam
The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia

The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia traces the emergence of Tamil literary realism as a transregional formation across India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore from the 1940s to the 1980s…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Eliot Weinberger,
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transl…

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Shannon Lambert
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety,…

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Gina Filo
Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse

Rethinking the Early Modern

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapesRejecting the ideals of stability and sexual mastery demanded of masculine subjects, early modern English poets threw …

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Jacqueline Beatty
In Dependence

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women i…

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Athina Papachrysostomou
FrC 16.4 Epikrates - Eriphos

This book is the first comprehensive study ever devoted to the comic poets Epicrates, Epigenes, and Eriphus, figures previously known only through scattered quotations from later sources. The volume studi…

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Swedish Children's Cinema

Swedish children's cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of th…

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Serena Ferrando
Channelling Nature

What if poetry could teach us to live differently -- alongside plants, animals, and water? Channelling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry explores how twentieth-century Italian literatur…

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions -- by what happens "behind our backs." Chal…

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Benjamin M Han
Reckoning with the World

For many Koreans, Latin America is foreign and unfamiliar, but popular television shows have generated considerable interest in this region of the Global South. In Reckoning with the World , Benjamin Han …

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Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
Essential Shakespeare

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close readin…

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Richard Jenkyns
The Path from Aulis

The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists.Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jenk…

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Elen Caldecott
Writing for Young People

Applying the approach of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application of ideas to give writers …

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Jessica Frazier
Gadamer on Being

This book uses the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer to paint a picture of a creative, communal and hopeful modernity once promised, but almost forgotten behind 'end of history' and 'clash of civilizations' pred…

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Allison S. Curseen
Minor Moves

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure of Topsy, an enslaved girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. …

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Superheroes and Contemporary Cultures

Presents a diverse range of perspectives on contemporary superhero scholarship. It links in-depth close readings of central texts of the superhero discourse from a variety of media (comics, TV, film) with…

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Xavier Kalck
American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

Offering a new introduction to an important yet often overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual trajec…

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