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Hunting stories will usually glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. In this book, Dénètem Touam Bona takes up the perspective of the hunted, using the concept of marronage to highlight the lives and creativity of colonized and subjugated...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-12-01
Collection :
Critical South
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Das Buch rekonstruiert Entstehung und Inhalt von Helene Grass‘ Bücherschrank im Danzig der Vorkriegszeit und dokumentiert seine Nutzung durch den jungen Günter Grass. Neben einem Porträt von Grass‘ Mutter Helene präsentiert der Band Material für zukünftige Studien zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-12-01
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Aus komparatistischer Perspektive korreliert und kontrastiert der vorliegende Band aktuelle literarische Texte und Filme aus Griechenland und Italien – zwei Ländern Südeuropas, die von der Wirtschaftskrise 2008 am härtesten betroffenen waren – mit Krisennarrativen in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-11-30
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A partire dalla costatazione della centralità assunta dal fenomeno dell’ibridazione nella narrativa e nei media contemporanei, il volume esplora forme artistiche eterogenee presenti nella cultura italiana a cavallo tra letteratura, cinema, fumetto e altri modi di...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-25
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Leben und Werk der Drehbuchautorin Thea von Harbou stehen im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Studie, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf ihrem kulturpolitischen und ideologischen Wirken während des Dritten Reichs liegt. Der Text zeichnet ihren Werdegang als Verfasserin von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-11-22
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Reading Shakespeare’s Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare’s poems and how they speak to readersReading Shakespeare’s Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poems, providing insights into the individual poems, their themes and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
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This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-11
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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-09
Collection :
Critical South
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Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-08
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Das Buch untersucht E.T.A. Hoffmanns Roman Die Elixiere des Teufels. Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus eines Capuziners mit dreifacher Zielsetzung: Zum Ersten präzisiert es anhand einer eingehenden textnahen Lektüre das gängige Verständnis des Texts in mehreren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-03
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HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words and people:...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s.
Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
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Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-27
Collection :
Critical South
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José Saramago, one of the most critically acclaimed writers worldwide, was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. This honour, the first to be bestowed on a Portuguese-language writer, marked one of the high points in a long and manifold career....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Whether we are touched by the 2015 migrant crisis in the Mediterranean or the heated debates about the status of the (260+ million) displaced persons in our different societies, all of us have been affected by the «age of migration.» Marco Micone’s hybrid text, which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-07
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The question of gender has been ignored sometimes or mystified in historical literary analyses. This book focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and adopts a gender perspective that is difficult to overlook today.The very limited number of female authors in earlier...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-07
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Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-06
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Zentraler Gegenstand dieses Buchs ist die Figur des wandernden Juden Ahasver, die 1602 im Flugblatt der Kurzen Beschreibung eingeführt wurde, später zahlreiche literarische Werke inspiriert hat und zum Mythos wurde. Aus figurentheoretischer und rezeptionstheoretischer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-03
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