Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Richard Wilson,
Shakespeare's Fascist Followers

This illuminating book demonstrates how in the 20th century Shakespeare and his plays were subjected to a sustained institutionalized misreading, which served the purposes of proto-, present and future fa…

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Alexandra Reza
Anticolonial Form

Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers unders…

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Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism

"In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a leading advocate for, European modernism. From the milieu of May 1968 to the contemporary '…

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Alexander Robert Phillips
Ecology and German Realism

Shows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental transformation but that it was central to their aesthetics.

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Paul Kent
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - Volume 2: Mid-Season Form

In 1915, and for the next decade or so, P.G. Wodehouse's fictional world mushroomed within his imagination. His best-known creations, Jeeves and Bertie, arrived in that year, as did Lord Emsworth and many…

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Leslie Fiedler
Love and Death in the American Novel

A provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielder's groundbreaking work changed the way we…

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Thomas Gustafson
American Anti-Pastoral

Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth’s acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for th…

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Thomas Gustafson
American Anti-Pastoral

Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth’s acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for th…

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire

Beyond Universalism / Partager l¿universel, 3

Over the past two decades, the concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained momentum in academic, activist, artistic, and political contexts. How can the humanities help addr…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

This book examines how Chaucer's innovative use of prose in The Canterbury Tales reflects the complex political anxieties surrounding writing and media in fourteenth-century England.

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Aa Vv
The Passenger: Thailand

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.  IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad - The Cou…

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Ken Krimstein
Einstein in Kafkaland

From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, a brilliant graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became "Einstein," Kafka became "Kafka," and everything changed for…

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Nicholas Mcdowell, Henry Power
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history, stretching f…

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Lili Berger,
On the Waves of Destiny

On the Waves of Destiny is a powerful collection of essays and works of fiction that introduces English-speaking readers to Lili Berger, one of the most prolific and insightful Yiddish women writers of th…

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Tess Chakkalakal
A Matter of Complexion

"A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first Black authors to write for both Black and white readers. In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of C…

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Antonios Pontoropoulos
Writing Herstory Through Ancient Greek Letters

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of mo…

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John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

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David Streitfeld
Western Star

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mou…

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