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  1. Touché
    the duel in literature
    Author: Leigh, John
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0674286987; 9780674286986; 9780674504387
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Duell <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: Online-Ressource, illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Touché
    the duel in literature
    Author: Leigh, John
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --1. Honored in the Breach --2. The Comical Duel --3. The Poignant Duel --4. The Judicial Duel --The "Romantic" Duel --6. The Duel and Self- Realization --7. The Grotesque Duel --8. Paradoxes of the Duel... more

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    Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --1. Honored in the Breach --2. The Comical Duel --3. The Poignant Duel --4. The Judicial Duel --The "Romantic" Duel --6. The Duel and Self- Realization --7. The Grotesque Duel --8. Paradoxes of the Duel --Epilogue: 1918 --Notes --Acknowledgments --Index.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780674286986; 0674286987
    Subjects: Dueling; Dueling in literature; Dueling; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; Dueling; Dueling in literature; History
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - In English. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2015)

  3. Touché
    The Duel in Literature
    Author: Leigh, John
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary... more

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    Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674286986
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    Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; Dueling in literature; Dueling
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (330 Seiten), 10 halftones
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

  4. Touché
    the duel in literature
    Author: Leigh, John
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Honored in the Breach -- "A Barbarous Custom" -- Abbé de Saint-Pierre -- Corneille, Le Cid (1637) -- 2. The Comical Duel -- Deterring the Duellist -- Duel and Ridicule -- Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme... more

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    Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Honored in the Breach -- "A Barbarous Custom" -- Abbé de Saint-Pierre -- Corneille, Le Cid (1637) -- 2. The Comical Duel -- Deterring the Duellist -- Duel and Ridicule -- Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) -- More Wretches and Cowards -- Sedaine, Le philosophe sans le savoir (1765) -- Sheridan, The Rivals (1775) -- Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836) -- 3. The Poignant Duel -- Richardson, Clarissa -- or, The History of a Young Lady (1747-48) -- Rousseau, Julie -- ou, La nouvelle Héloïse (1761) -- Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) -- 4. The Judicial Duel -- Kleist, "Der Zweikampf" (1811) -- 5. The "Romantic" Duel -- Nature's Aristocrats versus Darwinian Imperatives -- Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (1823-31) -- Mérimée, "Le vase étrusque" (1830) -- 6. The Duel and Self- Realization -- Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) -- Casanova, "Il duello, ovvero Saggio della vita di G. C. Veneziano" (1780) -- Hugo, Marion de Lorme (1829) -- Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844) -- Dumas père, Les trois mousquetaires (1844) -- 7. The Grotesque Duel -- Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1878) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) -- Maupassant, "Un duel" (1883) and "Un lâche" (1884) -- Conrad, "A Duel" (1908) -- Schnitzler, Casanovas Heimfahrt (1918) -- Pirandello, Il giuoco delle parti (1918) -- 8. Paradoxes of the Duel -- A Tragicomedy -- The Savage Noble -- The Cult of Style -- Laws and Rules -- The Duel over Women -- Epilogue: 1918 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

     

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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674286986
    Subjects: Dueling in literature; Dueling; Dueling in literature..; Dueling ; History; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource, illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Contents; Introduction; 1. Honored in the Breach; "A Barbarous Custom"; Abbé de Saint-Pierre; Corneille, Le Cid (1637); 2. The Comical Duel; Deterring the Duellist; Duel and Ridicule; Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670); More Wretches and Cowards; Sedaine, Le philosophe sans le savoir (1765); Sheridan, The Rivals (1775); Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836); 3. The Poignant Duel; Richardson, Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1747-48); Rousseau, Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse (1761); Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782); 4. The Judicial Duel; Kleist, "Der Zweikampf" (1811)

    5. The "Romantic" DuelNature's Aristocrats versus Darwinian Imperatives; Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (1823-31); Mérimée, "Le vase étrusque" (1830); 6. The Duel and Self- Realization; Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748); Casanova, "Il duello, ovvero Saggio della vita di G. C. Veneziano" (1780); Hugo, Marion de Lorme (1829); Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844); Dumas père, Les trois mousquetaires (1844); 7. The Grotesque Duel; Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1878) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894); Maupassant, "Un duel" (1883) and "Un lâche" (1884); Conrad, "A Duel" (1908)

    Schnitzler, Casanovas Heimfahrt (1918)Pirandello, Il giuoco delle parti (1918); 8. Paradoxes of the Duel; A Tragicomedy; The Savage Noble; The Cult of Style; Laws and Rules; The Duel over Women; Epilogue: 1918; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index