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Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and authors are discussed along with important developments in the genre, and the impact of novels on society at the time. The text...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-13
Collection :
Reading the Novel
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Diese Studie untersucht systematisch die politische Dimension der Dramen von Thomas Bernhard und Peter Handke. Obgleich beide Autoren als Provokateure und Skandal-Inszenatoren gelten, deren öffentliche Auftritte wie Werke heftige Debatten auslösten, fehlt bisher eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-13
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'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his most famous...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-02-09
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Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Für Trakl gilt die Bibel nicht nur als eine große Inspirationsquelle. Sie ist auch als ein ständiger Bezugspunkt zu betrachten, der ihn seine eigene Position in der Welt bestimmen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-08
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This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics. The volume fills a 20 year gap from the last published book on the issue and aspires to bring researchers closer to cutting edge alternatives...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-07
Collection :
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
ePub
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From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-07
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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-06
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-31
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die Analyse von Identitätskonstruktionen und transkulturellen Narrativen in ausgewählten Werken von G. Kuruvilla, I. Scego, L. Wadia und S. Abdel Qader. Der kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Zugang dient dem zentralen Anliegen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-31
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The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-30
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This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-25
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The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-25
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) ist der einzige in der Schweiz geborene Literaturnobelpreisträger. Dazu hat er durch seine Rede «Unser Schweizer Standpunkt» 1914 die Beibehaltung der absoluten Neutralitätspolitik der Schweiz stark mit beeinflusst. Doch das Interesse an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-20
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Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-17
Collection :
How to Study Literature
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This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-16
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Clustering around five major themes, and written by academics, researches and artists from Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan and the United States, these essays explore how literary texts encode the faculty of...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2017-01-15
Collection :
Collection Karoli
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