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Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature
Selected Essays by Klaus Garber
Av Max Reinhart
Inbunden, 2000
2209 kr
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The most prolific historian of early modern German literature in the twentieth century, Klaus Garber has largely remained unknown to English-language scholars. The seven essays selected here are translated into English for the first time and represent the ’essence’ of Garber’s work. Central to …
Devolving Identities
Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging
Av Lynne Pearce
Inbunden, 2000
879 kr
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There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in continental Europe, the British Isles has undergone far-reaching constitutional reform. In Devolving Identities, feminist scholars explore their personal …
Chaucer’s Dream Visions
Courtliness and Individual Identity
Inbunden, 2000
3643 kr
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Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore represent an important conduit through which the influence of European writers was received into English, enabling a …
We Europeans?
Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century
Av Tony Kushner
Inbunden, 2004
3168 kr
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We Europeans is the first book-length study of the original mass observation project. It is also the first detailed historical study of the formation of ordinary people's 'racial' attitudes in Britain. Drawing upon historical, literary, cultural and anthropological approaches, this book examines …
Translating Travel
Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation
Inbunden, 2001
1113 kr
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Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture. The volume takes as its starting point the marginal position of contemporary Italian travel …
Perspectives on Travel Writing
Inbunden, 2004
2890 kr
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Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its …
Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775–1793
Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française
Inbunden, 2006
2890 kr
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The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the achievements, and the failures of the first professional association for creative writers in European history. Founded by the well-known playwright Pierre-Augustin …
Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture
Inbunden, 2002
2209 kr
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This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributions to this volume give due attention to the twentieth century migratory phenomena, theorised by Edward Said, Julia Kristeva and Salman Rushdie. …
Proust's Cup of Tea
Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture
Av Emily Eells
Inbunden, 2002
3643 kr
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Proust's Cup of Tea analyzes Proust's reading of various Victorian authors and shows how they contributed to A la recherche du temps perdu. This book proves that British literature and art played a fundamental role in Proust's writing process by citing from the manuscript versions of his novel, as …
Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century
Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)
Inbunden, 2004
1750 kr
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In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The Renaissance' have always emphasised the importance of the influence of continental, as well as classical, …
Romanticism of Contemporary Theory
Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism
Inbunden, 2003
3266 kr
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Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that …
Proust at the Movies
Av Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid
Inbunden, 2005
2890 kr
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Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own …
Authority, State and National Character
The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700–1900
Av Helmut Kuzmics, Roland Axtmann
Inbunden, 2007
997 kr
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This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. Drawing on the concepts and theories of Norbert Elias on the Civilizing Process, it sets out to pin down …
Name and Nature of Tragicomedy
Inbunden, 2004
3643 kr
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Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame (serious drama …
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2004
2588 kr
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Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' …
Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914
Creating Caledonia
Inbunden, 2005
2588 kr
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In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel …
Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2007
2890 kr
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In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? …
Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969
Utterly Resigned Terror
Av Aaron Kelly
Inbunden, 2005
3266 kr
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For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments, …
Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2004
3643 kr
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This study commences with a simple question: how did Russia matter to England in the age of William Shakespeare? In order to answer the question, the author studies stories of Lapland survival, diplomatic envoys, merchant transactions, and plays for the public theaters of London. At the heart of …
Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth
Hercules at the Crossroads
Inbunden, 2004
2588 kr
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In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static …
Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art
Studies in Scatology
Av Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim
Inbunden, 2004
3643 kr
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Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the …
Poetics of Transubstantiation
From Theology to Metaphor
Av Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini
Inbunden, 2005
3643 kr
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The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favoring an interartistic and comparative perspective, a wide range of critical approaches, from the …
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
Shifting Perspectives
Inbunden, 2005
2890 kr
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Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth century, was naturally very keenly aware of the …
Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2006
3643 kr
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In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early …
Poetics of Transubstantiation
From Theology to Metaphor
Av Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini
Häftad, 2016
995 kr
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The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favoring an interartistic and comparative perspective, a wide range of critical approaches, from the …
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2017
866 kr
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Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' …
Perspectives on Travel Writing
Häftad, 2017
1062 kr
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Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its …
Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art
Studies in Scatology
Av Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim
Häftad, 2016
995 kr
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Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the …
Proust at the Movies
Av Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid
Häftad, 2017
878 kr
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Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own …
Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century
Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The Renaissance' have always emphasised the importance of the influence of continental, as well as classical, …
