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Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of...
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Springer
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2011-10-26
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Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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This critical anthology seeks to reassess the complex cultural and literary negotiations taking place between Europe and its margins in an increasingly globalized age. The somewhat paradoxical title of this volume playfully reverses traditional views of the relationship...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-10-26
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From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace*Rabbit superheroes. A theory of masks and capes. Victorian otherlands.From her 1940s childhood to her time at Harvard, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF. In 2010, she delivered a lecture series at...
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Virago
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2011-10-20
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What does contemporary French poetry do to the subject? This book examines the means and effects of the subject’s transmutation into various processes of (de-)subjectivation by looking at the works of four contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-10-18
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A COMPANION TO POETIC GENREA COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-10-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-10-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
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Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most comprehensive and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-10-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most comprehensive and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-11
Collection :
Blackwell History of Literature
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This collection of critical essays and interviews gives an overview of the various kinds of medial manifestations which Shakespeare’s work has been transferred into over the centuries: into a theatrical performance, a printed text, a painting, an opera, an audio book, a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-26
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-09-23
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy, Amherst College Amherst,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-09-21
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E. T. A. Hoffmann war in der Zeit der Entstehung der meisten seiner literarischen Werke als Richter am Kammergericht in Berlin tätig. Die Arbeit macht sich auf die Spurensuche bezüglich der Zusammenhänge zwischen dichterischem Schaffen und richterlicher Tätigkeit....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-20
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Der Blick auf Cato war nach seinem Tod und in der Antike zum größten Teil positiv geprägt. Die romantische Vorstellung vom freiheitsliebenden Widerstandskämpfer, der für seine Ideale eher in den Tod ging als zur ausgestreckten Hand Caesars, wurde erst mit dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-09-20
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Intertextualität spielt für die Deutung von Apuleius’ Metamorphosen eine zentrale Rolle. In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass Apuleius bei der Schilderung von Liebesbeziehungen den elegischen Diskurs aufgreift, indem er seinen Protagonisten Lucius und die Sklavin Photis...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-09-20
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The literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especiallyThe Lord of the Rings, are marked by their author’s professional interest in the history of English. This study shows how philological features such as nomenclature, archaism and echoes of Old English poetic forms have...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-20
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Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-15
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Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
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Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes appears in four novels and fifty-six short stories. Although Holmes was not the first literary detective, he continues to have a perennial allure as the ultimate sleuth. As Holmes is being re-introduced to a new...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-09-01
Collection :
Brief Histories
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