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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2023The gift of narrative in medieval England
by Nicholas Perkins
This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. Ranging from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, and including close discussions of poetry by Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet and romances in the Auchinleck Manuscript, this book will prompt new ideas and debate amongst students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as anyone curious about the pleasures that romance narratives bring.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2021The gift of narrative in medieval England
by Nicholas Perkins, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2023Creating character
Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction
by Helena Ifill
This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.
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Children's & YAThe Strawberry Fairy. The Loveliest Stories to Read Aloud
by Stefanie Dahle
The Strawberry Fairy works her magic again! For this top-quality gift edition, decorated with glitter and foil embossing, the author and illustrator Stefanie Dahle has chosen her own favourite stories from the three books. There is always something going on in the strawberry garden: the little fairy cures the sore throats of the frog choir, helps Don Carlo to win the love of his sweetheart, and enjoys some jolly parties in the garden. Later everyone cuddles up by the fire and makes plans for the spring while drinking a delicious cup of strawberry tea. A book to treasure, and not just for Strawberry Fairy fans.
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May 2004Das süße Gift der Buchstaben
Reden zur Literatur
by Peter Bichsel
Zwischen 1983 und 2003 hat sich Peter Bichsel nicht oft, dafür aber dann, wenn es geschah, um so prägnanter in öffentlichen Reden mit Autoren und anderen nicht unbekannten Menschen, die es mit Büchern zu tun haben, auseinandergesetzt. Und immer sind dabei Texte entstanden, die von der Lust am Lesen erzählen, von der gefährlichen Leidenschaft, ja unheilbaren Sucht, Buchstaben, Wörtern und Sätzen verfallen zu sein. In seinen Reden über die Eröffnung einer Buchhandlung, zu einem Geburtstag des Verlegers Siegfried Unseld, über Jean Paul, Gottfried Keller und Peter von Matt zeigt Peter Bichsel, wie ernst und zugleich undogmatisch er mit Büchern umgeht und was ihm die »Solidarität der Leser« bedeutet: angesichts einer Lektüre mit jemandem zusammenzusein.
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1979
Starkes Gift
Kriminalroman
by Sayers, Dorothy L / Nachwort von Killy, Walther; Übersetzt von Bayer, Otto
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