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V&R Unipress Narrative Der Grenze: Die Etablierung Und
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V&R unipress GmbH Der ›Frauenkrimi‹ in Ost und West: Diskursive
Book SynopsisDie (Sub-)Gattung Frauenkrimi gilt als Erfindung der Verlagspolitik und Literaturkritik der 1980er Jahre, im 21. Jahrhundert verschwand sie allerdings (fast völlig) aus den Verlagsprogrammen. Wie jede kriminalliterarische Form durchlief auch der Frauenkrimi viele Entwicklungsstufen, versuchte sich als (weibliches) Gesellschaftssprachrohr und spiegelte die sich verändernden Wirklichkeitsverhältnisse wider, bis er sich im Zuge der Feminismus-Debatten nicht mehr als salonfähig erwies. Wohlgemerkt als Begriff, weniger als kriminalästhetisches Narrativ, denn auch heute werden in West- und Osteuropa Frauenkrimis verfasst, die man jedoch nicht mehr als solche labelt. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes ist die (Sub-)Gattung anhand von exemplarischen Textanalysen zu konturieren. Women's crime fiction as a (sub) genre is an invention of literary criticism and the publishing industry of the 1980s. In the 21st century it has almost completely disappeared from publishing agendas. Like other forms of detective fiction, women's crime fiction went through many stages of development. It tried to serve as a social mouthpiece for women's issues, it reflected the changing reality, only to finally be recognized as a relic by the feminist debate as a concept, not as a crime narrative, because today, both in Western and Eastern Europe, women's crime fiction is still written, however, it isn't referred to as feminine. The purpose of analyzing the examples of women's crime fiction collected in this volume is to describe the aforementioned (sub)genre.
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V&R unipress GmbH Krisen(-Reflexionen): Literatur- und
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V&R unipress GmbH Postmodernizing the Holocaust: A Comparative
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Bloomsbury India Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Rhythm in Modern Poetry: An Essay in Cognitive
Book SynopsisEva Lilja is Professor Emerita of Literature in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Specializing in modernist poetry, she pioneered the study of free versification and was the founder and chair of the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies.
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Princeton University Press The Consolations of Writing
Book SynopsisBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. ItTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2015 Rene Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association "[A] revelatory study... Zim's close readings of these in-tandem texts bear haunting witness to enduring conditions in the world that ought not to be but unfathomably are, despite all the vociferous protestations that decry inhumane treatment of the other."--Choice "This book clearly demonstrates the profundity of much writing from prison and is packed full of fascinating and, in my experience, accurate observations. Every prison chaplain ought to have this book on his or her shelf."--Terry Waite, Church TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. In Defense of Civilization 19 1. The Disciplines of Reason and Lyric Poetry 21 Anicius Boethius, Of the Consolation of Philosophy (ca. 524-25): The Foundations of Resistance in Dialogue and Lyric 21 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1943-45): Christian Ethics and Lyric 47 2. Creative Dialogues with Textual Partners, Past and Present 79 Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation: A Political Guide to the Dilemmas of Religious Conscience (1534-35) 80 Antonio Gramsci, Prison Letters (1926-37): Dialogue in Dialectic 104 Part II. Preservation of Self 119 3. Memory and Self-Justification: Images of Grace and Disgrace Abounding 121 John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666): Writing the Eternally Present Self 124 Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897): A Pastoral Letter of Disgrace Abounding 142 4. Memorial Narratives as Salvation for the Feminine Self 166 Marie-Jeanne Roland, Memoirs (1793): Writing History Herself 169 Anne Frank, The Diary and Tales from the Secret Annexe (1942-44): Life Writing 191 5. The Consolations of Imagination and Lyric Poetry 213 Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composes au secret / 33 Sonnets of the Resistance (1943): Preserving the Liberty of a Poet 214 Irina Ratushinskaya, Pencil Letter and No, I'm Not Afraid (1982-86): Preserving the Life of a Poet 241 Part III. Testimony for Mankind 265 6. With Hindsight and Beyond Resistance 267 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (1947) and Ad ora incerta (1947-86): Resisting the Demolition of a Man 267 Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve (1981): In Defense of Civilization 291 Conclusion: Beyond Testimony 302 Select Bibliography 311 Index 319
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Princeton University Press Lydia Ginzburgs Prose Reality in Search of
Book SynopsisThe Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the dTrade Review"Particularly welcome is the queer studies dimension of the volume... Those coming to Ginzburg's work for the first time will particularly appreciate the informative biography of the author at the beginning of the book"--Choice "Any student of the twentieth century and its traumas, let alone Soviet literary history, should find Van Buskirk's book of extreme interest and value."--Marat Grinberg, Russian ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note about Spelling, Transliteration, and Archival References ix Introduction 1 1 Writing the Self after the Crisis of Individualism: Distancing and Moral Evaluation 26 2 The Poetics of Desk-Drawer Notebooks 69 3 Marginality in the Mainstream, Lesbian Love in the Third Person 109 4 Passing Characters 161 5 Transformations of Experience: Around and Behind Notes of a Blockade Person 196 Conclusion: Sustaining a Human Image 222 Notes 231 Bibliography 323 Index 343
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Princeton University Press Stealing Helen
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ultimately, the book's greatest merit may lie . . . in his [Edmunds'] broad horizons--in his delight at discovering similarities between classical literature and the tales and experiences of people across the globe."---Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education"Edmunds brings to this rich, sophisticated book an innovative approach to the Helen story: he looks at it with a comparative eye." * Choice *"An excellent, important book in both its methodology and data. . . . Edmunds has brought about a leap of quality in understanding the myth of Helen."---Ephraim Nissan, Fabula"A weighty contribution to the study of Helen as well as the study of folklore in ancient Greece."---Ryan Platte, Journal of Hellenic Studies
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Penguin Putnam Inc Late Essays
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Johns Hopkins University Press Transatlantic Literary Studies A Reader
Book SynopsisThis important compilation represents and promotes the conceptualization of American culture within the broader context of transatlantic activity.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Transatlantic Literary Studies A Reader
Book SynopsisThis important compilation represents and promotes the conceptualization of American culture within the broader context of transatlantic activity.
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Edinburgh University Press Psychic Connection and the TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisContends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous theories of psychic connection
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Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Anthropocene
Book SynopsisProvides the first book-length analysis of modernism and the Anthropocene.
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Edinburgh University Press Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution
Book SynopsisAnalyses contemporary Iranian literature in both Iran and its diaspora, in relation to the social, economic and political fields.
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Edinburgh University Press Italian Gothic
Book SynopsisThe first critical study that theorises the Italian Gothic and examines its main forms and manifestations across arts, media, and disciplinesTrade Review"This imaginatively conceived volume is impeccable in its scholarship, and opens up new ways of thinking about Italian culture in the past two centuries. It does so with great critical insight and panache, dispelling long-held critical prejudices against the Gothic as genre and mode, and unsettling canonical views and critical frameworks. The volume makes for rich and compelling reading." -Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway University of London
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Alfred A. Knopf Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their
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Academica Press Rabindranath Tagore as a Philosophical Voyager: A
Book SynopsisA multi-faceted creative personality, Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest stalwarts of both English and Bengali literatures. He created a Renaissance in India, where people were awakened by the great corpus of creative work produced during the country's struggle for independence from the British. Tagore was undoubtedly a champion of this literary protest. He produced masterpieces in Bengali literature and later translated them into English. Gitanjali, his masterpiece collection of poems with a foreword by William Butler Yeats, is renowned for its rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. It won Tagore the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first awarded to an Asian writer, and a knighthood. In this landmark study, noted Indian scholar P. V. Laxmiprasad offers the most comprehensive critical study of Tagore's work to date.
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Legenda Adapting the Canon: Mediation, Visualization,
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Classiques Garnier L'x de la Parole: Essai Sur Le Discours Du Fou
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Classiques Garnier Autorite Et Marginalite Sur Les Scenes
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Classiques Garnier Ecritures Avides: Samuel Beckett, Louis-Rene Des
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Classiques Garnier Poesie Moderne Et Oralite Dans Les Ameriques
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Classiques Garnier Litterature, Arts, Sciences Humaines Et Sociales
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Classiques Garnier Local Et Mondial: Circulations / Local and
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Classiques Garnier Objets, Methodes Et Pratiques Comparatistes /
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Classiques Garnier Litterature, Science, Savoirs Et Technologie /
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Classiques Garnier Le Couple Machiavelique
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Classiques Garnier Pour Une Morphologie Du Genre Utopique
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Classiques Garnier Le Transport Romanesque: Le Roman Comme Espace de
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Classiques Garnier La Pensee Figurative Du Monde: Marcel Proust Et
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Classiques Garnier L'Elegie Europeenne Au Xxe Siecle: Persistance Et
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Classiques Garnier La Litterature Grecque Moderne
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Classiques Garnier Danse Et Poesie Plastiques: Transferts
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Classiques Garnier Romania: L'Emergence d'Un Mythe Culturel Europeen
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Classiques Garnier Amazones de Boheme: Construction Du Genre Et de
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Classiques Garnier Roman Noir, Reforme Et Surveillance En Angleterre
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Classiques Garnier Musique Et Abolition Du Temps: Figures d'Un Ideal
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Classiques Garnier Entre Atlantique Et Ocean Indien: Les Voix de la
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Classiques Garnier Lumieres Et Enthousiasme: Histoire d'Une Idee
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Classiques Garnier Demons Du Crime: Les Pouvoirs Du Truand Dans
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Classiques Garnier Sciences En Litterature: D'Un Savoir-Faire
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Classiques Garnier Mediterranee-Caraibe: Deux Archipelites de
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Classiques Garnier Parcours Critiques: Avec Un Texte Inedit
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Classiques Garnier Recit de Soi Et Construction Des Identites
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Classiques Garnier Faut-Il Bruler Sagan ?
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Classiques Garnier Aspects Du Primitivisme Litteraire
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