Classics Literature – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 9

Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Stephen M Fallon
Milton and Newton

John Milton, England's greatest narrative poet, and Isaac Newton, England's greatest natural philosopher, are rarely thought of together. While one is regarded as the last great figure of the English Rena…

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Arthur Hugh Clough

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian p…

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Laurel Brake, Robyn Jakeman
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume V

Studies and Reviews, 1864-1889 is volume five in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater . It brings together, for the first time, Pater's essays, reviews, and articles that were published in the p…

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Susan Neal Mayberry
Can't I Love What I Criticize?

Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison's eight novels, this book explores Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American me…

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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Ágota Márton
Geometries of Empathy

What does it mean to empathize today?Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'e…

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Stephen Orgel
The Texts of Shakespeare

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation o…

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Louis Klee
The Constellational Novel

A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature b…

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Emmy Waldman
Filial Lines

This is the first book to place the autobiographical projects of canonical comics authors Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel alongside each other, focusing on new and neglected works (and with an epilogue …

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Caroline Rody
Writing the Great House

The great house is renowned as the setting for countless English novels and films. But Writing the Great House shows it to be not only an influential icon in the history of the European novel but also a t…

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Global King Lear

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global …

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The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

"An in-depth, accessible history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this book provides analysis of all key genres in this celebrated body of writing and of their literary and historical contexts. Thr…

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Ryan Topper
Animist Poetics

Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.

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The Death Drive

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars …

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Manga Classics: Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare's tragic play about a young couple from two warring families is perhaps the greatest love story ever told. Manga Classics retells the tale with bold illustrations, making it easy to fo…

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Michèle Roberts
Colette

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her w…

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Marianne Noble
Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harrie…

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