English Literary Classics – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 9

Emily McAvan
Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this book examines in detail important writers such as Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie from…

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Sarah Bouttier,
An Ecopoetics of Agency

Focusing on a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency to nonhuman beings and texts themselves, Sarah Bouttier puts form, often neglected within ecocriticism, at the…

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Jonathan Hay
Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep…

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Yosefa Raz
The Poetics of Prophecy

Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is linked to …

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Paul Vlitos
Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth of the Creative Writing Industry

A groundbreaking exploration of the development of the literary advice industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book examines popular author guides of the period, offering insight into the…

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

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Marius Hentea
Literary Treason

Can you commit treason by "mere words"? "Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?" Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the f…

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Marius Hentea
Literary Treason

Can you commit treason by "mere words"? "Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?" Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the f…

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Ruth Mack
Handicraft Philosophies

"The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenme…

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Ruth Mack
Handicraft Philosophies

"The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenme…

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Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

A guide for today's classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writerTeaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First…

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Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

A guide for today's classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writerTeaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First…

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Talia Schaffer
Communities of Care

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn Communities of Care , Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups th…

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Harold Bloom
The Western Canon

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller."An impressive work...deeply, rightly passiona…

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Indira Ghose
A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …

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J G Ballard,
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure i…

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Oliver Basciano
Outcast

The story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracizationOutcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world's foundational …

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Victorian Gaslighting

Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary-cultural history of gas…

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Elena Emma Sottilotta
Seekers of Wonder

Women's cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheriesWith Seekers of Wonder , Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women's manifold roles in th…

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Kerry Dodd
Encountering Material Culture Through Archaeological Fiction

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narr…

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