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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, which was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text …
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- 9780472902002
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- 895.6 ROW y
Kafka's Zoopoetics : Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
Kafka's Zoopoetics is the first extensive account of animals and human-animal relations in the work of Franz Kafka. The book appeals to a broad audience, including scholars and students of Comparative Literature, German Studies, Cultural Studies, and Human-Animal Studies. Kafka’s pivotal role in world literature cannot be overestimated. Exploring the multidimensional relations between humans …
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- 9780472131792
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- 216 halaman
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- 800 HAR k
An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology
Originally published in 1945, An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the Literature of Cryptology provides a comprehensive listing of the most important works written up to that time on cryptography, as well as works in related fields in which cryptography appears. It includes a vast range of materials: scientific and technical works dealing with military, diplomatic, and commercial uses …
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- 9780810138414
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- 800 GAL h
Henry James' Europe : Heritage and Transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction.
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- 9781906924386
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- 316 halaman
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- 800 TRE h
The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry : Romanticism, Subje…
This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood co…
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- 9781317276487
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- 288 halaman
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- 800 RUD i
Interpreting Chekhov
The author’s contention is that Chekhov’s plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov’s dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently ac…
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- 9781920942687
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- 800 BOR i
Mimetic Lives : Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel
What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives explores this unprecedented question on the rich ground of Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s fiction. Each author discovered techniques for intensifying the aesthetic illusion Kitzinger calls mimetic life: the reader’s sense of a character’s embodied existence. Both authors tested the limits of that illusion by pushing it toward the novelâ…
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- 9780810143975
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- 256 halaman
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- 800 KIT m
Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller
This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer’s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally.The book takes the â…
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- 9781612493435
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- Comparative Cultural Studies
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- 800 DUR m
A Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland
Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French writer Romain Rolland remains best known for his epic coming-of-age tale, Jean Christoph. In A Critical Bibliography of the Published Writings of Romain Rolland William Thomas Starr Starr painstakingly collects the information on all writings by and about this prolific author through 1949. Organized into two parts, the bibliography lists the wr…
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- 9780810138711
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- 168 halaman
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- 800 STA c
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the cir…
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- 9783110495416
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- 367 halaman
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- 900 MUL c
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