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This book investigates different elements which have direct implications for translations but are not the actual text. These features are usually presented in a particular format – written, oral, digital, audio-visual or musical. They are furnished with, for example,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-16
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By mapping the contour of Thornton Wilder’s major plays and novels, this book offers a fresh reading of his deceptively unfashionable art of allegorical narrative, and aims to reaffirm Malcolm Cowley’s perspicacious judgment: «(Wilder is) one of the toughest and most...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-16
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Eine kluge, politische Satire voll bitterer Wahrheiten und fast schon prophetischer Voraussicht in die gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklung unserer Zeit, geschrieben von James Fenimore Cooper, dem Autor der Lederstrumpf-Romane. Die immer noch Gültigkeit besitzende...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-13
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Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-09
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm Tóibín repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through this collapsing of boundaries, he examines the cost of broader political...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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The study of the work of Geoffrey Chaucer – still regarded as a literary genius more than 600 years after his death – centres on the problems of detailed readings of his poetry (including in some cases the textual authority for these readings) and the historical context...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It applies non-truth-conditional semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earlier approaches to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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This book offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies by investigating their nature, role and function. The author examines long-debated theoretical and critical issues with their philosophical implications, as well as Woolf’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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Inhalt: Michael Kaiser: Eine misslungene Bewährungsprobe des Prager Friedens. Melchior von Hatzfeldt und die Schlacht bei Wittstock (1636) – Martin Winter: «Die Veste Dömitz und Werben, Waren der Länder Verderben». Truppenbewegungen und befestigte Lager im Vorfeld der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-07
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Was bleibt mehr als zwanzig Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer von der Kultur der DDR? Wie wird heute über sie geschrieben und gedacht? Die Beiträge betrachten die ästhetisch-künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ende der DDR sowie das intellektuelle Nachleben. Es melden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-07
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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-07
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
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This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-1925) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Starting from the investigation of the nineteenth century as a period of great...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-07
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A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-05
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-05
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local versions of PanHellenic myths. Clark also discusses approaches to understanding myths, allowing students to gain an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-02
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In recent decades, theoretical and critical studies have oscillated between, on the one hand, wrestling otherness from a condition in which it is dependent on and defined relative to the notion of the same and, on the other hand, pursuing an approach to sameness and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-02
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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-28
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The Democratic Promise engages Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic and cultural reading of politics and terror, Jacques Rancière’s concept of the partition of the sensible, Alain Badiou’s ethics and politics, and Jacques Derrida’s thoughts on philosophy in a time of terror in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-27
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The Marquis de Sade as a Key Figure of Enlightenment: How His Crystal Genius Still Speaks to Today’s World and Its Major Problems discusses how the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) stretched the dimensions of reputation and notoriety nearly obscuring his mastery in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-27
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Hogwarts and All explores modern children’s literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstmärchen (adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-27
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