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Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Goran Stanivukovic
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• Author(s): Goran Stanivukovic • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBody has been one of the main preoccupations of current Renaissance historiography a...
View full detailsFire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones
Marc Dipaolo
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• Author(s): Marc Dipaolo • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyA broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of t...
View full detailsReading for the Moral: Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction
Maria Franca Sibau
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• Author(s): Maria Franca Sibau • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseReassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenge...
View full detailsEchoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain
Richard O. Block
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• Author(s): Richard O. Block • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that...
View full detailsOur War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism
Adam Spry
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• Author(s): Adam Spry • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasExplores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American...
View full detailsMulticultural Poetics: Re-visioning the American Canon
Nissa Parmar
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• Author(s): Nissa Parmar • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: American - GeneralArgues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation's poetry and ...
View full detailsUnmaking The Making of Americans: Toward an Aesthetic Ontology
E. L. McCallum
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• Author(s): E. L. McCallum • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: American - GeneralDevelops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertr...
View full detailsReligious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama
Lieke Stelling
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• Author(s): Lieke Stelling • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFew subjects of the English stage have proved more alluring and enduring than religious co...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
Anthony Bale
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• Author(s): Anthony Bale • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHow were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the vario...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
Anthony Bale
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• Author(s): Anthony Bale • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHow were the Crusades, and the crusaders, narrated, described, and romanticised by the vario...
View full detailsViolent Minds
Matthew LeVay
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• Author(s): Matthew LeVay • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshJust as cultural attitudes toward criminality were undergoing profound shifts in the late n...
View full detailsThe Cambridge History of Science Fiction
Gerry Canavan, Eric Carl Link
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• Author(s): Gerry Canavan | Eric Carl Link • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the e...
View full detailsA History of the Bildungsroman
Sarah Graham
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• Author(s): Sarah Graham • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThe Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western literature since the eighteenth ...
View full detailsWhere I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return
Patricia P. Chu
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• Author(s): Patricia P. Chu • Publisher: Temple University Press • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press • BISAC: American - Asian American & Pacific IslanderIn researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their p...
View full detailsAllegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Andrew Newman
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• Author(s): Andrew Newman • Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press • Publisher Imprint: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press • BISAC: Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasPresenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's...
View full detailsAllegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Andrew Newman
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• Author(s): Andrew Newman • Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press • Publisher Imprint: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press • BISAC: Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasPresenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's...
View full details"Das Selige Sinnlose Wort" Zur Performanz Des Unaussprechlichen Bei Osip Mandel'stam
Svetlana Bogen, Wolf Schmid
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• Author(s): Svetlana Bogen | Wolf Schmid • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - GermanПредметом рассмотрения в этой книге являются стихотв...
View full detailsZum Schwund Der Lexikalischen Entlehnungen Aus Dem Deutschen in Der Alltagssprache Der Kleinen Staedte Des Ehemals Polnisch-Deutschen Grenzgebietes
Józef Grabarek, Hanna Biaduń-Grabarek, Sylwia Firyn
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• Author(s): Józef Grabarek | Hanna Biaduń-Grabarek | Sylwia Firyn • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - GermanNach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ...
View full detailsTextual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative
Lidewij Van Gils
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• Author(s): Lidewij Van Gils • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strat...
View full detailsThe T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Volume 2
John D. Morgenstern
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• Author(s): John D. Morgenstern • Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup • Publisher Imprint: Clemson University Press W/ Lup • BISAC: PoetryThe T. S. Eliot Studies Annual strives to be the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Elio...
View full detailsChildren's Literature and Imaginative Geography
Aïda Hudson
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• Author(s): Aïda Hudson • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureWhere do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scho...
View full detailsReflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity: Autobiography and Fiction in Terenci Moix's Novels
Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Michael G. Paulson, Arthur J. Hughes
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• Author(s): Tamara Alvarez-Detrell | Michael G. Paulson | Arthur J. Hughes • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: European - FrenchCovering nine majo...
View full detailsAfter Queer Studies
Tyler Bradway, E. L. McCallum
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• Author(s): Tyler Bradway | E. L. McCallum • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsAfter Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic em...
View full detailsRomanticism and Theatrical Experience
Jonathan Mulrooney
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• Author(s): Jonathan Mulrooney • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book...
View full detailsPlaying Shakespeare's Lovers
Louis Fantasia
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• Author(s): Louis Fantasia • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: European - GermanPlaying Shakespeare's Lovers examines Shakespeare's romantic chara...
View full detailsOld English and Continental Germanic Literature in Comparative Perspectives
Larry J. Swain
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• Author(s): Larry J. Swain • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA Saxon of St. Boniface's acquaintance in England ob...
View full detailsSpatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism
Christian Beck
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• Author(s): Christian Beck • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsThis book uses literary analysis and digital humanities to show how social justice can be enacted in everyday a...
View full detailsVinculaciones Y Desencuentros de la Novela Latinoamericana Contemporánea
Javier Gómez Montero, Adelso L. Yánez Leal
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• Author(s): Javier Gómez Montero | Adelso L. Yánez Leal • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - FrenchEste libro re�ne un conjunto de an�li...
View full detailsLes Pouvoirs de la Littérature de Jeunesse
Hans-Heino Ewers-Uhlmann, Kodjo Attikpoé
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• Author(s): Hans-Heino Ewers-Uhlmann | Kodjo Attikpoé • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureCe volume explore...
View full detailsMagic in Apuleius' >Apologia: Understanding the Charges and the Forensic Strategies in Apuleius' Speech
Leonardo Costantini
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• Author(s): Leonardo Costantini • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalDespite the growing interest in Apuleius' Apologia or Pro se de magia, a speech he delivered in AD 158/159 to defend himself ag...
View full detailsApproaches to Greek Poetry: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Aeschylus in Ancient Exegesis
Marco Ercoles, Lara Pagani, Filippomaria Pontani
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• Author(s): Marco Ercoles | Lara Pagani | Filippomaria Pontani • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient and Classical In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a...
View full detailsDichtungen 1647-1648
Alfred Noe, Hans-Gert Roloff
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• Author(s): Alfred Noe | Hans-Gert Roloff • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDer Band enthält die genealogische "Lobrede an Kaiser Ferdinand den Dritten" auf das Haus Österreich, mit "Holstein vergi...
View full detailsRepresenting Algerian Women: Kateb, Dib, Feraoun, Mammeri, Djebar
Edward John Still
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• Author(s): Edward John Still • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - FrenchThis monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945-1962), na...
View full detailsStudia Germanica
Stephen E. Flowers
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• Author(s): Stephen E. Flowers • Publisher: Lodestar Books • Publisher Imprint: Lodestar Books • BISAC: MedievalThis volume contians "A Semiotic Theory of Rune-Magic," "Is Sigurdr Sigmundr aptrborinn?" and other essays on heroic poetry and relig...
View full detailsCritical Essays on John Edgar Wideman
Bonnie Tusmith, Keith E. Byerman
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• Author(s): Bonnie Tusmith | Keith E. Byerman • Publisher: University of Tennessee Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tennessee Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanJohn Edgar Wideman is one of the most prominent African American writ...
View full detailsThe Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles
Dean J. Franco
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• Author(s): Dean J. Franco • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralLos Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets ...
View full detailsTaming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians
Patrick Brantlinger
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• Author(s): Patrick Brantlinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist a...
View full detailsBlanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism: From Post-Mortem to Post-Mystic
Robert Simon
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• Author(s): Robert Simon • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThis book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu's work within the...
View full detailsVon Prinzessinnen zu Koeniginnen: Performative (Ohn)macht in Der Tod und das Maedchen III (Rosamunde) und Ulrike Maria Stuart von Elfriede Jelinek
Sergio Santiago Romero, Arno Gimber, Ana Giménez Calpe
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• Author(s): Sergio Santiago Romero | Arno Gimber | Ana Giménez Calpe • Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P • BISAC: European - GermanDie Arbeit geht anhand v...
View full detailsPostcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism: Reading Real and Imagined Spaces
Helen Kapstein
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• Author(s): Helen Kapstein • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsConsiders how real island spaces have been used in literary texts and t...
View full detailsAlice Walker's Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit
Nagueyalti Warren
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• Author(s): Nagueyalti Warren • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: American - African AmericanDrawing on poetry, novels, short stories, children's books, and essays, N...
View full detailsFantasies of Self-Mourning
Ruben Borg
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• Author(s): Ruben Borg • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFocusing on a recurring theme in twentieth-century film and literature, the fantasy of surviving one's own death, Fantasies of Self-Mourning desc...
View full detailsFriedensdiskurse in der neueren deutschsprachigen Literatur: Am Beispiel von Erich Maria Remarque und Martin Auer
Bernhard Spies, Messan Tossa
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• Author(s): Bernhard Spies | Messan Tossa • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - GermanDas Buch legt den Fokus auf die Herauskristallisier...
View full detailsSynge and His Influences: Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School
Patrick Lonergan
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• Author(s): Patrick Lonergan • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: DramaThe year 2009 was the centenary of the death of John Millington Synge, one o...
View full detailsBram Stoker and the Late Victorian World
Matthew Gibson, Sabine Lenore Müller
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• Author(s): Matthew Gibson | Sabine Lenore Müller • Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup • Publisher Imprint: Clemson University Press W/ Lup • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in rela...
View full detailsBrothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature
Carolyne Larrington
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• Author(s): Carolyne Larrington • Publisher: York Medieval Press • Publisher Imprint: York Medieval Press • BISAC: MedievalThe literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sister, laying bare sibling ...
View full detailsArtistry of Neil Gaiman: Finding Light in the Shadows
Kyle Eveleth
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• Author(s): Kyle Eveleth • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsContributions by Lanette Cadle, Z�leyha �etiner-�ktem, Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Andrew E...
View full detailsAktuelle Tendenzen in der Fremdsprachendidaktik: Zwischen Professionalisierung, Lernerorientierung und Kompetenzerwerb
Karin Vogt, Annika Kreft, Mona Hasenzahl
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• Author(s): Karin Vogt | Annika Kreft | Mona Hasenzahl • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - GermanDie Fremdsprachenforschung ist ein dyn...
View full detailsTransiciones Democráticas Y Memoria En El Mundo Hispánico: Miradas Transatlánticas: Historia, Cultura, Política
Ulrich Winter, Patrick Eser, Angela Schrott
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• Author(s): Ulrich Winter | Patrick Eser | Angela Schrott • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - GermanLas transiciones democr�ticas en la...
View full detailsIch Bin Tot - Vom Eigenen Tod Erzählen: Postmortale Narrationen in Prosa
Nora Haller
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• Author(s): Nora Haller • Publisher: J.B. Metzler • Publisher Imprint: J.B. Metzler • BISAC: Comparative Literature1966 bezeichnete Roland Barthes den Satz "Ich bin tot" als unmögliche Aussage, denn sie behaupte das radikal Widersprüchliche: Leb...
View full detailsA Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind
Sean Ross Meehan
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• Author(s): Sean Ross Meehan • Publisher: Camden House (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY) • BISAC: American - GeneralRecent scholarship has inspired growing interest in the later work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and a recognition...
View full detailsBlogging from Egypt: Digital Literature, 2005-2016
Teresa Pepe
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• Author(s): Teresa Pepe • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Middle EasternSix years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a m...
View full detailsFilming the Children's Book: Adapting Metafiction
Casie E. Hermansson
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• Author(s): Casie E. Hermansson • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureJust as a work of self-reflexive 'metafiction' - and the experience of readin...
View full detailsRetelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Trine Stauning Willert, Gerasimus Katsan, Georgia Aitaki
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• Author(s): Trine Stauning Willert | Gerasimus Katsan | Georgia Aitaki • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: European - GeneralOver the past thirty years, the representation of Greek history in literature, fi...
View full detailsA World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921
L. M. Montgomery, Benjamin Lefebvre
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• Author(s): L. M. Montgomery | Benjamin Lefebvre • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: CanadianCelebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequel...
View full detailsKomparative Aesthetik(en)
Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich, Meher Bhoot
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• Author(s): Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich | Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich | Meher Bhoot • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: American - GeneralDieses Buch ...
View full detailsEthan Frome: Analysis in Context
Eric B. Olsen
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• Author(s): Eric B. Olsen • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: GeneralFor nearly a hundred years, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome has been considered one of the great works of American literature, a book that nearly every...
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Oscar Wilde: the Aesthetic, the Angelic, the Satanic: A Critical Essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde: the Aesthetic, the Angelic, the Satanic: A Critical Essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray
Abdellah Ben Megdoul
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• Author(s): Abdellah Ben Megdoul • Publisher: Authorhouse UK • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK • BISAC: Modern - GeneralArt can be beautiful, but it can also be ugly. A sin, for instance, can be a test of an individual's moral limits, and this...
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Oscar Wilde: the Aesthetic, the Angelic, the Satanic: A Critical Essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde: the Aesthetic, the Angelic, the Satanic: A Critical Essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray
Abdellah Ben Megdoul
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• Author(s): Abdellah Ben Megdoul • Publisher: Authorhouse UK • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK • BISAC: Modern - GeneralArt can be beautiful, but it can also be ugly. A sin, for instance, can be a test of an individual's moral limits, and this...
View full detailsKatherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture
Chris Mourant
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• Author(s): Chris Mourant • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyExplores Katherine Mansfield's engagement in the periodical culture of the early twentieth century Th...
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