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Allusions form a colourful extension to the English language, drawing on our collective knowledge of literature, mythology, and the Bible to give us a literary shorthand for describing people, places, and events. So a cunning…
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Catherine & Diderot: the empress, the philosopher, and the fate of the EnlightenmentA dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it…
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Diesseits des Don Juan-Mythos: Zwischen Immunisierungsdynamiken und Affirmation des LebensDie Untersuchung der Dynamiken, die den Mythos Don Juans begründen und über die üblichen Befunde zur Dialektik von Verführung und göttlicher bzw. gesellschaftlicher Bestrafung hinausgehen, steht…
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The Development of Tropes in Arabic Wine Poetry Up to the 12th Century Ad This book explores the theory of the evolution of poetic imagery as developed by Joseph Sadan, showing how metaphors were taken…
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Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in Old Norse myth and literatureNorse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and…
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Linguistic turns, 1890-1950: writing on language as social theoryLinguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the…
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The Carthaginian North: semitic influence on early Germanic: a linguistic and cultural studyThis book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems…
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Semantic plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entitiesThis monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the…
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„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, who mixed the traditions of Andalusia with the avant-garde. He…
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Das Stanford Literary Lab ist ein Forschungs-Kollektiv aus der Literaturwissenschaft: The Stanford Literary Lab is a research collective that applies computational criticism, in all its forms, to the study of literature. The Lab is open…