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  • Art and Life in Modernist Prague

    Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938

    de T. Ort ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

    Edición de John D. Lyons ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances ... Leer más

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  • A Mandala of Words

    Cultural Realities in the Poems of Ashok Vajpeyi

    Series Libro 3 - Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
    This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for the principle of unity with the world – causes language to become an extension of existence. The author ... Leer más

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  • Postcolonial Conrad

    Paradoxes of Empire

    de Terry Collits ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies.Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of ... Leer más

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  • The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre

    Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text

    Series Libro 23 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers to particular signs on the face, it looks for evidence of a knowledge and awareness of this pseudo ... Leer más

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  • Subject Without Nation

    Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity

    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil’s Austria was the first postimperial state in modern Europe. Prior to its destruction in 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had ruled over a vast array of nationalities and, in the course of its demise as well as after, Austria was beset by ... Leer más

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  • 9/11 in European Literature

    Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed

    Edición de Svenja Frank ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural ... Leer más

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  • Tribal Fantasies

    Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900–2010

    Edición de J. Mackay, D. Stirrup ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right, contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on American Indian ... Leer más

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  • Joyce and the Science of Rhythm

    de W. Martin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book situates Joyce's critical writings within the context of an emerging discourse on the psychology of rhythm, suggesting that A Portrait of the Artist dramatizes the experience of rhythm as the subject matter of the modernist novel. Including comparative analyses of the lyrical prose of Virginia Woolf and the 'cadences' of the Imagists, Martin outlines a new concept of the 'modern period' ... Leer más

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  • Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French

    Queering the Martyr

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, but two martyr-types. These are the queer type, typified first by Gustave Flaubert, which is a ... Leer más

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  • Teaching Literature and Medicine

    Series Libro 16 - Options for Teaching
    Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to disease in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses ... Leer más

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  • Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)

    European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts.The contributors emphasize the wider contexts ... Leer más

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