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Scandinavica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Scandinavica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Metaphor II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Metaphor II

Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis.Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A Bibliography of Post-1970 Publications, published by John Benjamins, continued the record through the mania years up to 1985 when writings proliferated as metaphor was seen to be a fundamental category in human thought and language.Five years later, there is a need for a report on the newest thinking and tendencies in the field. This need is fulfilled by Metaphor II which offers a comprehensive view o...

Prague Territories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Prague Territories

Scott Spector’s adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called "Prague circle" and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice. With the collapse of German-liberal cultural and political power in the late-nineteenth-centur...

Walt Whitman and the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Walt Whitman and the World

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.

Drama in Hardwicke Street
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Drama in Hardwicke Street

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This first full length history of the Irish Theatre Company follows the theater from its inception in 1914, through the crisis of the Easter Rising, in which three of its founders were killed, to its demise in 1920, when the "Troubles" turned the streets of Dublin into a battlefield and its surviving founder, Edward Matryn, refused to make the concessions to middlebrow taste that might have guaranteed its survival.

Nomadic Peoples
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 98

Nomadic Peoples

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Chaucer and Middle English Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Chaucer and Middle English Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Originally published in 1974. The thirty-six essays of this book were written and assembled in hour of an internationally recognised scholar of medieval literature. Written by a diverse range of contributors, the chapters cover not only various studies of aspects of Chaucer’s poetry, but also some other medieval authors and investigations about the period, particularly referencing carols and hymns.

A Study Guide for August Strindberg's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "Miss Julie"

A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

International Literary Market Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

International Literary Market Place

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Bibliography of the History of Printing in the Library of Congress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

A Bibliography of the History of Printing in the Library of Congress

  • Categories: Art

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