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  • Les dépossessions romanesques

    Lecture de la négativité chez Anne Hébert, Gabrielle Roy et Réjean Ducharme

    by Alex Noël ...
    Le roman québécois a souvent détenu un statut problématique aux yeux de la critique, comme si, pour être pleinement romanesque, il lui manquait sans cesse une composante jugée essentielle : la maturité, l’amour ou encore l’aventure. Certains avancent même que, contrairement au roman européen, à partir duquel on l’a beaucoup lu, il n’y aurait pas de transformation du personnage dans le roman écrit ... Read more

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  • Neorrealismo y cine en Cuba

    Historia y discurso en torno a la primera polémica de la Revolución, 1951–1962

    Series Book 80 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Neorrealismo y cine en Cuba: Historia y discurso entorno a la primera polémica de la Revolución, 1951-1962 examina la historia estética y las relaciones entre la producción cinematográfica cubana y el neorrealismo italiano. El recorrido histórico comienza en 1951, antes del triunfo de la Revolución, y termina en 1962, año que marca la ruptura entre los cineastas cubanos y la estética neorrealista ... Read more

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  • The Craft of Poetry

    Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation

    This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interpret ... Read more

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  • Schmunzellyrik - Christian Morgenstern

    Ausgesuchte Gedichte zum Kennenlernen

    Series series Klassiker bei Null Papier
    Und er kommt zu dem Ergebnis: "Nur ein Traum war das Erlebnis. Weil", so schließt er messerscharf, "nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf." Diese bekannten Zeilen stammen von Christian Morgenstern, einem der größten Lyriker der deutschen Sprache. Er war ein Großer in der Meisterschaft der "kleinen" Literaturformen: Gedichte, Epigramme und Aphorismen waren seine Stärke. Lesen Sie hier ausgesuchte ... Read more

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  • Smart Pop Preview 2014

    Standalone Essays on Divergent, Zombies, the Hunger Games, Veronica Mars, and Fanfiction

    Get a sneak peak at Smart Pop's 2013 titles with this preview volume of standalone essays!Volume Includes:"Truth and Lies" Debra DrizaDowntown Chicago Faction Map from "Mapping Divergent's Chicago" V. ArrowFrom Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy, edited by Leah Wilson"Welcome to the Zombie Apocalypse" and "Overnight of the Living Dead French Toast" - Lauren ... Read more

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  • Heinrich Heine. Ein Intellektueller erobert Europa

    Biographie

    Series Book 13 - Europaeische Studien zur Germanistik, Kulturwissenschaft und Linguistik
    Dieses Buch ist eine Biographie, die Heines Lebens- und Leidensweg und seine Zeitgenossenschaft zeigt. Die Texte des „Dichterjuden" und seiner Exegeten, häufig zitiert, bilden zugleich die Geschichte einer Schmähung. Als liberaler Dichter und Intellektueller hat er mit Irrungen und Wirrungen die Moderne beeinflusst. ... Read more

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  • For Unduly Curbed Kindle Electronic Monographers; a Literary Liturgy

    A partially tongue-in-cheek guide for writers who independently publish or “publish” with small presses. Originally written in 2015-16, what it says is as relevant now as it was then. Or as irrelevant, depending on one’s point of view and intended “literary” scam. Changing world, my ass. ... Read more

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  • Заметки о русской поэзии

    Сборник обзорных очерков о жизни и творчестве выдающихся русских поэтов XIX века: Пушкина, Д. Веневитинова, Я. Полонского, А. Толстого, А. Апухтина. Автор пытался доступно изложить их творческое особенности, не впадая в упрощение и схематизм. Адресована любителям классической русской литературы. ... Read more

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  • Это ты, Лиля

    by Olga Koreneva ...
    Роман «Это ты, Лиля» - предельно откровенный, яркий, экспрессивный, он обнажает обострённое детское и подростковое восприятие окружающей действительности, это роман о сложной судьбе творческого человека. Это я о себе написала, и раскрыла все неприглядные тайны своей жизни. Имена и фамилии, конечно же изменены. ... Read more

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  • What you choose makes a difference!

    Woman Empowerment Vs. Feminism

    by Iqra Haroon ...
    For centuries, women have been mistaking Empowerment with something which poses a longterm chaos for society. Something which has apparently been designed to grant women their deserved rights, but, has proved to disturb societal and family relationships, as well as healthy development of soceities. This literary criticism throws light upon true nature of Feminism and redefines the term Woman ... Read more

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  • Riptides

    Riptides is a raw and unflinching view of motherhood, loss and healing from award-winning Australian poet Sharon Rodgers. This collection will live with you long after you close the last pages—a must-read for anyone who has experienced depression or faced losing a loved one. Includes the award-winning poem "The Watcher." ... Read more

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  • Учение Джуал Кхула: Термодинамика

    Series Book 9 - Учение Джуал Кхула - Эзотерическое Естествознание
    Идеи для этойкниги переданы гималайским учителем Джуал Кзхулом. Здесь мы рассказываем о вопросах термодинамики. И в первую очередь объясняем, чем с нашей точки зрения является такое физическое понятие, как температура. ... Read more

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  • Metafísica do gênero humano

    natureza e história na obra de Giambattista Vico

    Esta coletânea foi concebida a partir do encontro de duas sortes de aspirações: de um lado, de internacionalização dos estudos viquianos e incremento de uma comunidade de estudiosos vinculados pela natureza do seu objeto e pelo método de estudos mais do que por uma língua e nacionalidade; do outro lado, de divulgação da filosofia de Giambattista Vico no Brasil. Resultou daí um volume de doze ... Read more

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  • Medievalism: a Critical History

    The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? ... Read more

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  • Sheltered Hope

    Series Book 4 - Read Write Ponder
    When a boy finds a stray puppy, it comes as a surprise to everyone that he's allowed to keep her because his father is a hard man who thinks chores are more important than pets. It isn't long, though, before Hope wriggles her way into everyone's heart.Sheltered Hope is a tragic story that explores the notion of compassion and how mercy offers its own rewards. It is the fourth workbook in the Read ... Read more

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  • Долгое завтра, потерянное вчера. Экстремальный роман.

    by Olga Koreneva ...
    Невероятный, ошеломляющий роман, полный неожиданных поворотов и непростых ситуаций. Как говорится – будь осторожен в свои желаниях, они могут исполняться. И тогда - может случиться всякое. Вот такое всякое, экстремальное, и случилось с Катей, она попала в самый эпицентр детективных событий! ... Read more

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  • Hajj to the Heart

    Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean

    by Scott Kugle ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar Shaykh Ali Muttaqi and his little-known network of disciples. Scott Kugle relates how Ali Muttaqi, an expert in Arabic, scriptural hermeneutics, and hadith, left his native South ... Read more

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  • Love Letters

    What others are saying about Love LettersWilson Amooro has written a romantic collection of touching, endearing poems for anyone who is in love, has loved and lost, or wants to get a peek at what it means to have your heart light up with the thought of one who loves you dearly.Michelle Stimpson , National bestselling Author, Speaker, Educator~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~When the cynicism of my age and life ... Read more

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  • The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

    Volume VI, 1872–1878

    In January 1872, Bryant traveled to Mexico City, where he was greeted warmly by President Benito Juarez; on this and other occasions he was feted for the Evening Post's sturdy condemnation in 1863 of the abortive invasion of Mexico, which was freshly remembered there. AT the close of his visit a local newspaper remarked that the "honors and hospitality which were so lavishly and generously ... Read more

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  • The Scholar and the State

    Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

    by Liangyan Ge ...
    In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers ... Read more

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  • Traces of the Foreign

    The Reception of Translations of Spanish American Prose in Poland in 1945-2005 from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Language, Culture and Society
    The aim of this monograph is to present the traces of intercultural encounters between Poland and Latin America realized by means of literary translations produced in the post-war period. It considers various aspects of the reception of Polish translations of Spanish American prose in 1945-2005 by examining their presence on the book market in the communist times and after 1990 in free market ... Read more

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  • Crónicas de los perdidos

    Series Book 2 - Crónicas de los Feelsonsteel
    Crónicas de los perdidos es un libro que trata una vez más sobre el pensamiento humano y como este ha derivado en un comportamiento que dista bastante del honor de antaño y de las buenas intenciones de la gente. A traves de los ex-guerreros Harter y Beatriz Feelsonsteel, respectivamente en sendas historias, el lector se podrá submergir en una visión descarada y dura de la realidad que vivimos ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Novels

    by Martin Klebes ...
    Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more ... Read more

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  • Machado de Assis e o cânone ocidental

    itinerários de leitura

    (1º lugar na categoria Crítica Literária do 59º prêmio Jabuti) A obra, dividida em três partes, observa os mecanismos de diálogo de Machado com o leitor e o crítico, analisa a ironia no tecido retórico da narrativa machadiana e, por fim, revê a relação do escritor carioca com a cultura italiana, aqui representada por exemplos na literatura, história, teatro e ópera. Realizando uma integração de ... Read more

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