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This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. The overarching theme of the collection is the revision of the accepted view of Latin American national identities as represented in twentieth-century Latin American...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This study focuses on fictional representations of albinism in the work of the French writers Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville, and the Francophone Guinean writer Williams Sassine. The focus on selected novels allows for an in-depth study of each narrative and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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The early twenty-first century is witnessing a paradigm shift across the humanities away from an obsession with language and towards an engagement with the way in which physical space is imagined. This book showcases the impact of that shift upon the work of diverse...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini were two of the most eclectic cultural personalities of the past century, as elusive as they were influential. Despite the glaring differences between them, they also shared a number of preoccupations, obsessions and creative...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Edward Thomas,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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John Donne’s family were committed Catholics. His two uncles were Jesuits. One of them, Jasper Heywood, was the leader of the Jesuit mission in England, while Donne’s mother was a recusant who was forced to leave the country in 1595. In this detailed and historically...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This collection of essays can be situated in a development that has been underway in translation studies since the early 1990s, namely the increasing focus on translators themselves: translators as embodied agents, not as instruments or conduits. The volume deals with...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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How do we approach other people’s pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever they address narratives of terror and genocide, injustice and oppression, violence and trauma. Talking about other...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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This volume offers a state-of-the-art view of research into interdisciplinarity, language and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by providing an overview of teaching proposals within a university context. Interdisciplinarity is understood here as how...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Inhalt: Dieter Breuer: Grimmelshausens Verleger - eine kritische Übersicht – Friedrich Gaede: Leere Blätter? Grimmelshausens Thematisierung des Lesers – Klaus Haberkamm: Das Nativitätenbuch. Astrologisches Medium und simplicianisches Erzählen bei Grimmelshausen –...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to the constructed nature of fiction writing. Some common metafictional...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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Die Leistungen der spätantiken Philosophin Hypatia in Wissenschaft, Philosophie und in der Öffentlichkeit Alexandrias beeindruckten ihre Zeitgenossen. Autoren beleuchteten die Persönlichkeit und das Wirken der gelehrten Frau vom ausgehenden vierten bis ins sechste...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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Travelling in Women’s History with Michèle Roberts’s Novels: Literature, Language and Culture is a journey to discover Roberts’s work as a feminist writer, novelist and memoirist. An overall analysis and detailed overview of Michèle Roberts’s novels first provide the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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The eighteenth century witnessed profound changes in the conceptualization of animals and their relation with man: cruelty towards brutes, censured since antiquity for the damage it might cause to the human community, began to be considered from a different perspective,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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The Mediterranean world has long had strong cultural links to Great Britain as well as to the United States. Through the analysis of artistic objects and critical writings that crystallise this encounter, the essays in this volume demonstrate the variety and complexity...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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Grant seeking – the first step in knowledge production – has been an indispensable part of academic life, yet a challenging task for neophyte as well as veteran scholars. We are always curious about how grant winners compose their abstracts, cite previous work, present...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women’s/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of novelists such as Githa...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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Focussing on the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this collection of essays investigates the relation between the Queen and her subjects, which shapes contemporary and future politics and is actively crucial in the debate upon the divine right of kings. The book explores the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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This work provides an analysis of The Book of Margery Kempe and the figure of Margery Kempe herself, with a specific focus on contemporary critical re-readings as well as creative re-writings. The author re-reads the text making reference to recent theoretical...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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This book represents a fresh look at cohesion, the point of departure being Halliday and Hasan’s seminal Cohesion in English, which is examined in depth as are other notable approaches to cohesion such as Hoey’s Patterns of Lexis in Text. It also compares different...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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