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

Heike Schaefer
American Literature and Immediacy

The search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media culture for the past two centuries. This book offers the firs…

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Chelsea Burns
The Exotic Self

When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound…

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Gary Wade
Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism makes extensive use of unpublished material to offer fresh insights into Heaney's complex engagement with Catholicism. Gary Wade explores how Catholicism operates in ways oth…

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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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Kerstin Hensel

Kerstin Hensel is one of the most prolific, versatile and influential authors in contemporary Germany. Her unique literary voice owes as much to her character, background and biography as it does to its d…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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David J Vázquez
Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VÁzquez argues that…

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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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Rob Harris
After Impressionism

Impressionist painting was the dominant art form of its time, and one to which English-speaking poets were profoundly responsive. Yet the relationship between impressionism and poetry has largely been ove…

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson
A Black Woman for President

Throughout US history, only three Black women---Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris---have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Bl…

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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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Kai Horstmannshoff
The Loop

American Culture Studies - Band 21

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff de…

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Jeremiah R. Mercurio, Daniel Gabelman
The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling

This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling-the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. The first part focuses on definin…

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Reb Fountain

Reb Fountain

Product Information Celebrated singer-songwriter Reb Fountain's forthcoming self-titled album marks a new chapter in the kiwi artist's career and her first full-length release on Flying Nun Records. Reb…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Marilyn Mcentyre
Start with a Word

A creative masterclass for aspiring and established writers alikeAfter decades of writing award-winning books on subjects ranging from poetry to art to liturgical seasons, celebrated author Marilyn McEnty…

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Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman
Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd Edition

The updated edition of Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition , an in-depth exploration of Lupino's film and television directing work, provides close readings of the films an…

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Ulla Kriebernegg
Putting Age in its Place

Alter(n)skulturen - Band 14

How are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities connected in North American film and fiction? Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casare…

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Jesse Kavadlo
Rock of Pages

Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies.Based on d…

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