Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

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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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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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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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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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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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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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the AmericasIn 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spain to Florida with the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition---and ended up wanderi…

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Raphael Magarik
Fictions of God

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in …

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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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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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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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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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Brad Kent
Censorship and the Irish Writer

Censorship affected the careers of many Irish writers and transformed the trajectory of modern Irish literature. Although some authors were reluctant to defend themselves and their art, others strenuously…

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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

A classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned art…

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Robert J Patterson
Black Narratives of Slavery

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--en…

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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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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

"Provides guidance for teachers on old and new perspectives on Cabeza de Vaca's works, including literary topoi, Chicano literature, postcolonial readings, queer readings, race, adaptations, law and …

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Matt Treyvaud
Literary Landscapes: Tokyo

From Samurai sagas to Shibuya stories - discover the blossoming bookshops, bars, and backstreets of Japan's literary capital.Tokyo is a city of contrasts - where centuries-old haiku echo in temple gardens…

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