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The essays of this collection are, each in their own way, an attempt to address the centrality of emotions in literary and cultural production in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies. Emotions are...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-27
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The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies.The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-27
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After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in five exemplary novels and elaborates a distinctively Australian approach to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-20
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In the decades following the American Revolution, literary and cultural discourses, but also American collective and individual identification were shaped by transatlantic relations and inter-American exchanges and conflicts. The way Americans defined themselves as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-20
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Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilization as degenerate and despicable, happily marching to its own doom? Why...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-05-13
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Der Autor thematisiert die Funktion der Tropologie in Origenes’ Hermeneutik und Exegese. Er behandelt dessen Tropus-Begriff, Methodologie und Zeichentheorie. In diesem Kontext klärt er die Methode des Alexandriners, biblische Ausdrücke nach dem heuristischen Prinzip der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck as the temporalization («Verzeitlichung») of all areas of human knowledge and experience around 1800, the concept of critical time continues to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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Leben und Werk von Johann Elias Schlegel sind in höchstem Maße interkulturell und kosmopolitisch. Am Beispiel der persönlichen und literarischen Beziehung zum dänischen Frühaufklärer Ludvig Holberg thematisiert die Autorin die produktive Begegnung mit dem kulturell und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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Institutionalized through religious, moral and political discourses, the family has become an icon of Irish culture. Historically, the influence of the Church and the State fostered the ideal of a nuclear family based on principles of Catholic morality, patriarchal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of ‘languaging’ seems to capture most effectively the essence and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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The military man has long been one of literature’s archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French literature as this figure moved from noble warrior to nationalised...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. Borrows themes fromThe Intellectual Adventure of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-27
Collection :
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Die in diesem Band präsentierten Beiträge analysieren die Ambivalenz von Medien im Fokus medialer Transparenz, dem Mythos der Medien und den Digital Humanities.Die Eigenschaft der Medien, gleichzeitig Speicher, Mittler und Inhalt zu sein, zeigt ihre ambivalente...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit Kriegsbilder-, Kinder- und Jugendbüchern der Jahre 1914 bis 1918 aus nahezu allen kriegsbeteiligten Ländern sowie mit später erschienenen und aktuellen Jugendromanen, die sich rückblickend mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson’sThe Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson’s reconsideration of gender binaries and women’s rights as well as the poem’s reliance on...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This book offers the first presentation of Hellenistic and Roman period ceramic assemblages from the city of Hierapytna, located on the southeast coast of Crete. Recovered from three rescue excavations in the heart of the ancient city, this pottery records a diachronic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-15
Collection :
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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This book investigates how India was portrayed in British novels and short stories during the heyday of the British Raj. In the tradition of post-colonial studies such as Edward Said’s Orientalism, it will be considered in how far fiction by Rudyard Kipling and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-15
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