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This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-12-29
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The Beat Generation questioned mid-twentieth century America and sought the margins of society. This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat authors Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg in regard to Victor Turner’s anthropological...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-12-29
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With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove.
Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-12-08
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Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-29
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The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-11-29
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Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-11-10
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This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent’s end of the American West, Jeffers’ poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Ein Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik findet trotz kritischer bildungspolitischer Entwicklungen für das Französische bisher kaum statt. Um diese Zusammenarbeit zu etablieren, wählten die Herausgeberinnen für die Beiträge dieses Bandes ein innovatives...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913–2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing onGreece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-26
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An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-24
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics. In particular the contributed chapters introduce advanced techniques and concepts from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-20
Collection :
Computational Music Science
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In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great men, women and mystical creatures to arise, influence and shape the course of its history. Here in this book, Tolkien...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2017-10-20
Collection :
Tolkien
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This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-18
Collection :
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-05
Collection :
Blackwell History of Literature
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An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-12
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In this book, Eva Yampolsky explores the questions of identity, illusion and suicide in the works of Guy de Maupassant. Utilizing a historical context which stimulated numerous social, technological and scientific transformations and developments during the 19th...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-31
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