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Religious dissimulation and early modern drama: the limits of toleration
Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full…
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- 9781009226295
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- xi, 274 pages
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- -
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- 822.309382 SCH r
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- -
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- -
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- 820.71 MUK d
Classics and celtic literary modernism: yeats, joyce, macdiarmid and jones
Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged acro…
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- -
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- 9781108953825
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- xxvi, 300 pages
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- -
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- 820.9 BAK c
Literature, science and public policy from Darwin to genomics
Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature and literary study can help shape public policy concerning controversial scientific issues such as genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more. Literature brings unique insights to these issues, dramatizing their full complexity. Its value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples in chapters that take …
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- 9781009263504
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- xviii, 244 pages; illustration
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- 823.009 CLA l
Read till it shatters : nationalism and identity in modern Thai literature
This book introduces readers to modern Thai literature through the themes of modernity, nationalism, identity and gender. In the cultural, political and social transformations that occurred in Thailand during the first half of the twentieth century, Thai literature was one of the vehicles that moved the changes. Taking seriously ‘read till it shatters’, a Thai phrase that instructs readers …
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- 18
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- 9781760462260
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- -
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- Asian Studies Series
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- 895.91 CHA r
Musicality of a Literary Work
This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Cœur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fugh…
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- Volume 57
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- 9783653047769
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- 244p. : ill.
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- -
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- 780.08 AND m
New sounds, new stories : narrativity in contemporary music
When listeners talk about their listening experiences, they often refer to music as if it were a narrative. But can music actually tell a story? Can music be narrative? Traditionally, narrativity is associated with verbal and visual texts, and the mere possibility of musical narrativity is highly debated. In this study, Vincent Meelberg demonstrates that music can indeed be narrative, and that …
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- 9789087280024
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- 268 hlm
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- 146 VIN n
Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
The writings of Thomas Pynchon have spawned more critical commentary than almost any other American author of the last fifty years. Pynchon’s texts are perhaps most famed for their ‘difficulty and apparent unfriendliness’, as works that require, as Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale put it, ‘a collective enterprise of reading wherein none of us could succeed without the hel…
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- 1
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- 9781137405500
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- XIII, 229p
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- -
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- 813.5409 MAR
Telling tales : the impact of Germany on English children's books 1780-1918
Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English children’s stories during the 19th century and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive stu…
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- 9781906924119
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- xi,478 p
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- -
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- 820.99282 RES T
State Of Play
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depiction…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781849669818
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- viii, 272 p
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- -
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- 820.935841082 FIE s
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