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The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
In the first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history's two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity. Convinced of the political relevance of their folk tale collections and grammatical studies, the Brothers Grimm argued that they cou…
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- 9781009063890
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- viii, 268 p
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- 943.070922 BRO J
Beards and texts : images of masculinity in medieval German literature
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787352216
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- xi, 220p. ill;
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- -
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- 830.935211 BEA S
ACTIVIST AUTHORS AND BRITISH CHILD READERS OF COLOUR
Exploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter, this open access book examines issues such as the space given to people of colour by white activists; the voice, agency and intersectionality in activist writing for young people; how writers used activism to expand definitions of Britishness for child readers; and how activism and wr…
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- 4
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- 9781350196056
- Collation
- viii, 216p.
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- -
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- 820.809282 ACT s
Space, place, and children's reading development : mapping the connections
This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place influences textual interpretation of the books they read. Based on qualitative research and structured around interviews with twelve participants, Space, Place and Children's Reading Development …
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- 5
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- 9781350275973
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- xiv, 256p.; ill.
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- -
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- 372.4 SPA m
Latter-day screens : gender, sexuality, and mediated Mormonism
From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber ana…
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- edision 13
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- 9781478005292
- Collation
- ix. :ill. ;384 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 289.3. LAT b
Traces Of The Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence Of Digital Literary Studies
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history o…
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- 9780472052783
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People and place : the west coast of new zealand's South Island in history an…
This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off…
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- edision 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463458
- Collation
- vii. ;216 p. ;ill.
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- -
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- 820.99371. PEO l
Paul Muldoon and the language of poetry : volume 228
This book interprets the multifarious writing of the Irish-American word wizard, Paul Muldoon, who has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as ‘the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War’. Readership: All interested in poetry and writing from Ireland and the English-speaking world, and in the enigma of language.
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- volume 228
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- 9789004355118
- Collation
- ix, 232 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 821.914 PAU C
What's France got to do with it? : contemporary memoirs of Australians in France
While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a proje…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463632
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- xi, 204 p. ill;
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- -
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- 820.9994 WHA J
Conversations with Shōtetsu
Shotetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shotetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including anecdotes about famous poets, advice on how to treat certain standard topics, and lessons in etiquette when attending or participating in poetry…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901579
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- ix, 237 p.
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- -
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- 895.6124 CON R
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