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UNINA9910451189303321 |
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Beckson Karl |
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Oscar Wilde [[electronic resource]] |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (454 p.) |
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Wilde, Oscar |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; POEMS; VERA; OR THE NIHILISTS; THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY; THE DUCHESS OF PADUA; INTENTIONS; LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES; A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES; LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN; SALOME; A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE; THE SPHINX; AN IDEAL HUSBAND; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST; THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL; ON THE OCCASION OF WILDE'S DEATH; DE PROFUNDIS; COLLECTED WORKS; Bibliography; Select Index |
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This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. |
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UNINA9910964095303321 |
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National myths : constructed pasts, contested presents / / edited by Gerard Bouchard |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-22109-3 |
0-203-09711-4 |
1-136-22110-7 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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National characteristics |
Mythology |
Ethnicity |
Group identity |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Cover; TitleInformation; TitlePage; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The small nation with a big dream: Québec national myths (eighteenth-twentieth centuries); 2 National imaginaries in a globalizing age: The case of English Canada; 3 The myth(s) that will not die: American National Exceptionalism; 4 Ethnic myths as national identity in Brazil; 5 Understanding Mexico's master myth: A case for theory; 6 1066 and all that: Myths of the English; 7 Polish mythology and the traps of messianic martyrology |
8 Myths and national identity choices in post-communist Russia9 Myth and the postnational polity: The case of the European Union; 10 Transforming myths, contested narratives: The reshaping of mnemonic traditions in Israeli culture; 11 War room stories and the rainbow nation: Competing narratives in contemporary South African literature; 12 Gender, Nehanda, and the myth of nationhood in the making of Zimbabwe; 13 War, myths, and national identity formation: Chinese attitudes toward Japan; 14 Lineages and lessons (for national myth |
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formation) of Japan's postwar national myths |
15 Myths of the nation, cultural recognition, and personal law in India16 National myths: An overview; Index |
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National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to efficiently address this issue, do we know enough about the nature and role of myths in modern and postmodern societies?Against this background, National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Co |
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