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Präsentation und Signifikanz Prags im Erzählwerk von Cynthia Ozick und Philip Roth bilden das zentrale, bislang nicht erforschte Thema dieses Buches. Die Verbindungen, die durch Ozicks Rückgriff auf die Prager jüdische Legendentradition und Roths durch Kafka ausgelöste...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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Das Spektrum des Argumentierens über die Begründung und Rechtfertigung des Krieges in der attischen Rhetorik des 4. Jh. v. Chr. gestaltete sich breiter und komplexer als bisher angenommen. Der Autor analysiert einschlägige historische Reden und publizistische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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Monika Kocot’s book on Edwin Morgan’s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author’s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: «verbivocovisual» constellations,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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This reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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This book adds a new perspective to the study of American art by reclaiming underrated writings of three 20th-century masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt. Their rich and diverse literary output was never before studied methodically in and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Most of Norman Mailer’s works depict the reality of the United States of America and the complexities of the contemporary American social, political and economic scenes. They also contributed to the development of literary tourism. This monograph reveals Mailer’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing and contrasting the attitudes of young adult native speakers of British English and Polish towards the standard varieties of their mother tongues.The author reviews the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Communication audit is a relatively new field of research, which has so far been investigated from a managerial point of view. Linguists have not yet researched it. This book summarises existing, mainly managerial, approaches to communication audits and brings to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-30
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Verwandtschaft wird heute vor allem als biologisches Faktum verstanden, sie ist aber auch ein vom historischen und kulturellen Kontext abhängiges soziales Konstrukt. Davon ausgehend stellt die Autorin die Frage, wie in einem konkreten (literar-)historischen Fall...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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Multilingualism is broadly understood as the knowledge and use of two or more languages by individuals in their everyday lives, both private and professional. It is increasingly acknowledged as an important issue of the contemporary world and the interest in the matter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-24
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Seit ihrer Verschriftlichung im 18. Jahrhundert wird die Figur des Vampirs als fremdartig beschrieben. Ihre dauerhafte Ästhetisierung – von Goethes Die Braut von Corinth bis Bram Stokers Dracula – verhalf der Figur zu einer beispiellosen Karriere, die bei genauerer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise A Streetcar Named Desire throughout the course.This Study and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-03-21
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Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance examines the portrayals of Arab masculinities in novels published after September 11, 2001, by women of Arab descent in the United States. The book provides a historical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-18
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This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the book’s critical examination helps clear...
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Springer
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2016-03-17
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This book examines the concept of “ Neurosemantics”, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its classical sense, as the meaning of language, explained in terms of neural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-16
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Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancientGreek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation ofGreek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-16
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The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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