Word on the Street

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• As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also bec... Lees meer

Urban Microcosms 1789-1940

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• Urban microcosms are small-scale communal spaces that are integral to, or integrated into, city life. Some, such as railway stations or department sto... Lees meer

Writing and Muslim Identity

Frauke Matthes

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• Writing and Muslim Identity is a comparative study of Islam in contemporary German- and English-language literature. At a time when the non-Islamic wo... Lees meer

Society and Its Outsiders in the Novels of Jakob Wassermann

Katharina Volckmer

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• Society and its Outsiders in the Novels of Jakob Wassermann takes a fresh look at Wassermann's depiction of society and its mechanisms of exclusion, s... Lees meer

Freethinkers, Libertines and Schw Rmer

K F Hilliard

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• Religion mattered in the eighteenth century and has not ceased to matter since. How German writers responded to the crisis of orthodox forms of belief... Lees meer

Television Drama in Spain and Latin America: Genre and Format Translation

Paul Julian Smith

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• Customers in the USA and Canada ONLY can purchase the book from here: https: //bit.ly/2nm5ZkR Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses tw... Lees meer

From North Africa to France: Family Migration in Text and Film

Isabel Hollis-Touré

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• Over the past four decades immigration to France from the Francophone countries of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) has changed in characte... Lees meer

Women Political Prisoners in Germany: Narratives of Self and Captivity, 1915-91

Kim Richmond

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• One of the few major enquiries into women's narratives of political incarceration, this volume examines first-person accounts written against a backdr... Lees meer

Mit Worten Lûter Unde Glanz: Metapoetics in Konrad Von Würzburg's Trojanerkrieg

Esther Laufer

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• How can you fathom a bottomless abyss? How can you capture ineffable beauty in words? How do you narrate the master of all stories? These are the chal... Lees meer

Possible Worlds

Rebecca Maria Dewald

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• This volume reevaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation with an approach that places source ... Lees meer

Constance Pascal (1877-1937): Authority, Femininity and Feminism in French Psychiatry

Felicia Gordon

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• Constance Pascal's career in French psychiatry from 1908 to 1937 exemplifies the opportunities open to women in the French Third Republic as well as t... Lees meer

Writing and the West German Protest Movements: The Textual Revolution

Mererid Puw Davies

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• The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for thei... Lees meer

A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot

Zoe Angeli

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• This volume addresses recent contemporary French thought on literary realism. Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the "lit... Lees meer

Terrorism, Italian Style: Representations of Political Violence in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Ruth Glynn

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• The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ("years of lead," c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Ita... Lees meer

Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France: Critical Reflections

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• This volume of essays focuses on how poets approach reading as a notion and a practice that both inform their writing and their relationship to their ... Lees meer

Intercultural and Intertextual Encounters in Michael Roes's Travel Fiction

Seiriol Dafydd

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• This book investigates a specific aspect of travel literature - the fictional travel novel - and one practitioner of that sub-genre - the contemporary... Lees meer

The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos

Francesco Manzini

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• This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels - by Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos - that foreground the motif of fever... Lees meer