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Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical study of Murray's work available, Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man's epic encounter with the major events of the twentieth century, Fredy Neptune. Provides detailed readings of key poems, as well as literary and cultural contexts for the rapid shifts in style and subject matter Murray has made from collection to collection. Gives an overview of Murray's place within Australian literature and national thought. ;
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Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue and sport - including foot and horse races - across three love plots. This is the first critical edition of the play, including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline London and its stage, the Revels Plays edition unpicks Shirley's politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day, including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley from the same publishers.
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Die Frage nach der Identität von W. H., dem Shakespeare seine Sonette widmete, ist eines der klassischen Rätsel der Shakespeare-Forschung. Auch Cyril Graham, der jugendliche Held in Wildes Geschichte, verfällt dem Sog der Spekulation. Er ist überzeugt, W. H.s Identität gelüftet zu haben: Willie Hughes, ein jugendlicher Schauspieler aus Shakespeares Truppe, ist, so beweist er glaubhaft, der Adressat der Sonette. Um die letzten Zweifler zu überzeugen, begeht er eine Fälschung – doch der Betrug wird aufgedeckt ...Wildes virtuose Geschichte einer Obsession ist ein amüsantes Verwirrspiel über die enge Verflechtung von Kunst und Leben und eine gelungene Parodie der biographischen Methode in der Literaturwissenschaft – ein Muß für Wilde- und Shakespeare-Leser.
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Von frechen, vorwitzigen, neugierigen, abenteuerlustigen, schüchternen und nachdenklichen Katzen handelt Robert Gernhardts Katzenbuch. Mit Humor und Wortwitz erzählt er von großen und kleinen Sorgen im Katzenalltag und von Abenteuern auf Samtpfoten: von Pumpis anstrengender Woche und ihrer Reise in den Süden, von ihrer Freundin Missu und deren Entdeckungstouren und von der besonderen Verantwortung des Katzenpräsidenten. Illustriert wurden diese Geschichten und Gedichte von Almut Gernhardt.
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From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be. Reinterpreting their histories and attempting to divine their futures with a much heavier concentration on racialized visions of humanity, white Australian settlers came to believe that their whiteness as well as their Britishness qualified them for an equal voice in the running of Britain's imperial project. Through asserting their case, many soon claimed that, as newly minted citizens of a progressive and exemplary Australian Commonwealth, white settlers such as themselves were actually better suited to the modern task of empire. Such a settler political cosmology with empire at its center ultimately led Australians to claim an empire of their own in the Pacific Islands, complete with its own, unique imperial governmentality.
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Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism. In this volume, the editors have assembled an impressive range of interlocutors who set out to explore the shape and substance of Stanley Cavell's persistent acknowledgement of the literary as a category in which, and through which, philosophical work can be undertaken. A number of essays address his engagements with modernism, tragedy, and romanticism, while others consider Cavell's own aesthetic modes as a writer. Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature, and criticism will be of interest to all those who are concerned with the ways in which the reading of literature, and the practice of philosophy, might continue both to influence each other across disciplinary boundaries, and to challenge the internal topographies of those disciplines. ;
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Im Mittelpunkt des umfangreichen Prosawerks von Henry James (1843-1916) steht der Gegensatz von „alter“ und „neuer Welt“, so auch in Daisy Miller. Die Amerikanerin ist eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will, und sich nicht geniert,es auch zu tun ...
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Noam Chomskys Buch »Reflexionen über die Sprache« (= stw 185) stellt eine Zusammenfassung der sprachphilosophischen Kontroverse zwischen Empirismus und Rationalismus und zwischen Semantik und Pragmatik dar. Es präsentiert aber auch einen neuen Entwicklungsstand in der Kontroverse darum, ob die Syntax unabhängig von der Semantik operieren kann. Chomsky führt in diesem Buch die bereits 1973 in den »Conditions of Transformation« entwickelte Spurentheorie ein und motiviert diese sowohl aus empirischen Gründen der Sprachbeschreibung als auch mit kognitiven Argumenten sowie mit Beobachtungen aus dem Prozeß des Spracherwerbs. Diese Theorie stellt eine starke Revision der bekannten Annahmen Chomskys dar. In den »Reflexionen über die Sprache« liefert Chomsky sozusagen »nur« den konzeptuellen Rahmen der neuen Spurentheorie. Helen Leuningers Arbeit diskutiert nun die methodologischen und empirischen Fragen, die sich aus dieser neuen Theorie ergeben, und stellt sie in den forschungs- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang, aus dem sie entstanden sind.
