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This carefully crafted ebook: "HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Books Walden (Life in the Woods) A Week on t……続きを見る

This collection of essays by international specialists in the literature of Berlin provides a lively and stimulating account of writing in and about the city in the modern period. The first eight ch……続きを見る

Ris, ne te gène point, ami très cher, ô philosophe ! Je te vois d’ici lisant ces lignes au fond du fastueux cabinet encombré de la dépouille des âges où, parmi les tableaux anciens, les émaux, les t……続きを見る

This study explores Proust’s answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to th……続きを見る

This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and r……続きを見る

This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings ……続きを見る

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilitie……続きを見る

Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once ca……続きを見る

"In den großen Städten gehen die Menschen fremd aneinander vorüber, und nur der Neuangekommene hat ein gewisses Interesse für alles und für alle, denen er begegnet. Wir interessieren uns nur für die……続きを見る

Leggendo alcuni grandi capolavori della letteratura, può capitare di chiedersi: “Perché queste pagine mi piacciono tanto? Perché non riesco a staccarmene e resto a leggere fino a notte fonda? Perché……続きを見る

The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volumedemonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, histor……続きを見る

‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, ……続きを見る

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial pe……続きを見る

Extrait : Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyanci……続きを見る

A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in menta……続きを見る

This book discusses D. H. Lawrence’s interest in, and engagement with, transport as a literal and metaphorical focal point for his ontological concerns. Focusing on five key novels, this book explor……続きを見る

What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genea……続きを見る

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about d……続きを見る

Combining queer theory with theories of affect, psychoanalysis, and Foucauldian genealogy, Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini theorizes performative melancholia, a condition w……続きを見る

This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity ……続きを見る

Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the vo……続きを見る

This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the……続きを見る

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literatur……続きを見る

This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the……続きを見る

Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performanceーand what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing themーis a longstanding and contentious one. Most scholars agr……続きを見る

This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus……続きを見る

Where sound speaks louder than meaningーStevens’s poetry as a metaphysical echo. Wallace Stevens dedicated his poetry to challenging traditional notions about reality, truth, knowledge, and the role……続きを見る

The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectificati……続きを見る

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques De……続きを見る

Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in Englan……続きを見る