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paperbackEngels9781461333234
15-7-2013
The electromagnetic theory of Maxwell and the electron theory of Lorentz and Drude stimulated a great deal of experimental work on the optical properties of solids in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Meer
gebondenEngels9783030061395
4-3-2019
This book traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early Nō Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyōgen, which has often been left in noh's shadow. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781684485536
30-6-2025
PaperbackEngels9780141186344
5-7-2001
A collection of letters that forms a day-by-day account of the author's writing of "East of Eden". It features many subjects such as textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, and family matters and offer an illuminating perspective of the author. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107029842
22-10-2012
Samuel Beckett's narrative innovations are among his most important contributions to twentieth-century literature. Yet contemporary Beckett scholarship rarely considers the effect of his literary influences on the evolution of his narrative techniques, focusing instead on Beckett's philosophical implications. Meer
GebondenEngels9781498503273
15-12-2017
This book is an account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution has informed historical novels from Walter Scott to the near present. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781498503297
7-11-2019
This book is an account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution has informed historical novels from Walter Scott to the near present. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415190305
22-10-1998
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415009508
22-10-1998
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780292739659
1-9-1975
Analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. This book shows how twentieth-century fiction sets forth the essence of such phenomena as the first Peron regime, the Mexican Revolution, the Che Guevara legend, indigenismo, and the strongman political type. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107020313
5-4-2012
Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781107645974
19-12-2013
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107006775
26-5-2011
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415965934
12-6-2003
Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691620152
8-3-2015
J. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. Meer