Literary studies: fiction Books
Universitatsverlag Winter Sounding the Novel: Voice in Twenty-First Century
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£46.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Trans / Intifada: The Politics and Poetics of
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£52.25
Universitatsverlag Winter A Different Earth: Literary Space in Mary
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£57.95
Universitatsverlag Winter Teaching the Posthuman
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£27.96
V&R unipress GmbH Deutschsprachige Pop-Literatur von Fichte bis
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£55.65
V&R unipress GmbH Alles ist nur Symbol: Symbolisches Kapital und
Book SynopsisBontempelli analyses important motives and situations of the novel by examining Manns strategy of positioning within the literary field of his time. In his socio-analysis he offers a critical reading of selected episodes, figures and conflicts of the novel and thus summarizes Manns complex network of distinctions, social classifications and ruler dynamics. Furthermore, the symbolical order of the novel is analysed with regard to the work ethics, putting the Buddenbrooks in the context of two masters of the protestant Bourgeoisie of their time: Max Weber and Werner Sombart.
£34.65
V&R unipress GmbH … sind noch in der Mache: Zur Bedeutung der
Book SynopsisWie kaum einem anderen Autor haftet Johann Georg Hamann der Vorwurf des ›dunklen Stils‹ an. Dieser Vorwurf avancierte regelrecht zu einem Topos der Hamann-Lektüre und -Kritik, der bis heute unvermindert anhält und in Goethe und Hegel nur seine prominentesten Vertreter findet. Hamann hat sich immer wieder mit Fragen der Rhetorik und der ›richtigen‹ Schreibart beschäftigt. Zahlreich nimmt er in Schriften und Briefen explizit Bezug auf den Vorwurf der Dunkelheit, rechtfertigt seine besondere Schreibart und erläutert seine Vorstellungen zum Stilbegriff. Jedoch ist es vor allem die ›Mache‹ seiner Schriften selbst, die sich auf den Grenzen der klassischen Rhetorik oder jenseits davon bewegt und den Lesenden mit Texten konfrontiert, welche die sprachlichen Möglichkeiten individueller Darstellung und Textualität auszuschöpfen suchen. Rhetorische Mittel dienen Hamann dabei nicht als bloße Einkleidung der Gedanken, sondern sind untrennbarer Ausdruck der Eigentümlichkeit des Schreibenden und betonen die unauflösbare Spannung zwischen der Allgemeinheit der Sprache und dem individuellen Ausdrucksbedürfnis des Einzelnen. Johann Georg Hamann is notorious for his obscure writing style. This characterisation somehow advanced both to a lasting topos of Hamann lecture and criticism of which Goethe and Hegel are the most prominent representatives. Hamann repeatedly concerned himself with rhetoric issues and correct writing styles. In various writings and letters, he explicitly commented on the reproach of obscurity, defended his particular writing style and explained his concept of style. However, it is the design of his writing which pushes the limits of classic rhetoric or even moves them far beyond, thus confronting the reader with writings that try to exhaust both the linguistic means of individual presentation and textuality. Rhetoric means here not only serve Hamann as a pure incorporation of his thoughts but are an inseparable expression of the individuality of the author and emphasize the indissoluble tension between the generality of language and the individual’s need for expression.
£75.39
V&R unipress GmbH Rede, dass ich dich sehe
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V&R unipress GmbH Land Deep in Time: Canadian Historiographic
Book SynopsisLiterary exploration of what remains deep in ethnic memory in the land that remains deep in time
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Ediciones Catedra, S.A. La Gaviota
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£20.91
Robinbook Las Mejores Citas de Provocación
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£19.76
Robinbook Cómics: En La Piel de Los Superhéroes
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£15.39
Not Avail NUEVOS ACERCAMIENTOS A LA LITERATURA HISPANICA
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£24.60
Peeters Publishers Njáls Saga and its Christian Background: A Study
Book SynopsisNjáls Saga is universally recognised as the greatest and most complex of all the sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur). The originality with which the writer composed his narrative has led to its being likened to a novel created by an author who certainly used sources, although identifying which parts of the saga descend from oral, and which from written sources has proved difficult. The `Christian background’ of the title of this study refers to the ecclesiastical texts (including Scripture and its exegesis, church liturgy and the liturgical year, and hagiographical and apocryphal writings) which, it is argued, were used by the author of Njáls saga as he both created a bipartite structure, using familiar Christian metaphors to help unify the work; and developed his central thematic concern: that good legal judgement depends upon justice and mercy acting together, as in divine judgement. It is this which finally redeems Skarpheðinn Njálsson.
£78.00
Peeters Publishers In Praise of Fiction: Prefaces to Romances and
Book SynopsisPrefaces are perhaps the most original and intriguing genres of commentary on early modern fiction in English. Surprisingly, the front materials of the 'lesser' fictional texts published between 1650 and 1760 have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve, and have been only selectively reprinted so far. The purpose of this anthology is to make many of these prefaces available, including a number of texts authored by translators and editors of fiction published in English translation during this period. An introductory essay proposes a typology of the various strategies of legitimization of narrative prose fiction in early modern Britain, through an examination of the recurrent tropes and codes of the genre. It suggests that prefaces to narrative prose fiction in English played a key role in the emergence of a new status for fiction in the years that have traditionally been associated with accounts of the 'origins' of the 'novel'.
£95.57
Peeters Publishers Philosophie et fiction de l'Antiquité tardive à
Book SynopsisQuels étaient les représentations et enjeux de la philosophie et de la fiction, leurs échanges, interactions et zones frontières de l’Antiquité tardive jusqu’à la Renaissance ? La fiction peut apparaître comme l’envers de la vérité. Elle n’en est pas moins une forme de recherche de vérité, savoir ou sagesse : Augustin, Macrobe, Martianus Capella ou Boèce, puis les poèmes allégoriques latins du XIIe siècle, les encyclopédies du XIIIe siècle, suivies par des œuvres allégoriques écrites dans le milieu de la cour de Charles V et Charles VI ou encore par Ficin problématisent le statut de la fiction : quelle est sa légitimation philosophique ? Quels sont les rapports entre philosophie et arts libéraux, philosophie et poétique, philosophie et théologie ? Les contributions interrogent le lexique et l’arrière-plan philosophique. Elles examinent aussi les moyens de la fiction pour mettre en œuvre un projet herméneutique et heuristique fécond : la personnification, la prosopopée, les modèles narratifs (banquet ou voie) ou le cadre dialogique.
£86.00
Bloomsbury India Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing
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