Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Mantra Mukim,
Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth a…

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Paula Byrne
Hardy Women

A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'Thomas Hardy is one of the most belove…

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Trude Strand
Israel and the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Since 1967, Israeli decision-makers have opted to conquer, occupy, colonize and dominate the Gaza Strip. Why has this sliver of land - home and refuge to around 400,000 Palestinians at the time of the 196…

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Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of th…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature 2 Volume Hardback Set

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Kata Gellen
Galicia as a Literary Idea

In the decades following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the former province of Galicia inspired the literary imagination of two German-language natives of this region, Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenster…

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Stanley Leathes
The Religion of the Christ. Its Historic and Literary Development Considered as an Evidence of its Origin, the Bampton Lectures for 1874

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Richard Alston
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped t…

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The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume II

This volume spans almost five hundred years of Irish-language book printing, production, publication, distribution, and reception. It begins with the 1567 publication of John Carswell's Gaelic version of …

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Anna Snaith
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel levels brought about during WW1 created not only a concern with the effects of noise on…

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Tom Hare
Out of Character

A wide-ranging investigation of the interaction between writing and portraiture across history and culturesPortraits often claim a revered place in worlds remote from their origins, but they also risk ano…

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Shaj Mathew
The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

What is time? The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Timelooks beyond the clock and the calendar to explore its many dimensions: the time of mind and memory, the time of capitalism and colonialism, and even the ti…

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Duncan Bell, Sarah Cole
The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells was one of the leading literary figures and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Famous today as a pioneering science fiction writer, Wells was also a prominent social and political t…

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Rebecca C Pawel
Spain in the African American Imagination

Revealing how African American intellectuals reframed race, history, and cultural belonging in the modern eraIn 1954, Richard Wright rented a car in France and drove south to the Spanish border on the fir…

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Curtis White
On Resistance

From the writer Ellecalls the "most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respon…

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Rebecca C Pawel
Spain in the African American Imagination

Revealing how African American intellectuals reframed race, history, and cultural belonging in the modern eraIn 1954, Richard Wright rented a car in France and drove south to the Spanish border on the fir…

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Richard Wilson,
Shakespeare's Fascist Followers

' Richard Wilson's meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare's 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book.' Robe…

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Mercy in Disaster

Mercy in Disaster is about the forgotten nurse in America's signature, iconic photograph of Civil War wounded: abolitionist Abby Hopper Gibbons. Hung in museums large and small, pictured in books, and fou…

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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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Leslie A 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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