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Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-10-23
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«The duty of the present is neither to copy nor to deny the past but to resurrect it», wrote W.H. Auden in 1948. The European voices that William B. Yeats and Sir Geoffrey Hill choose to resurrect reflect their shared hope in the future of humanity, as the essays in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-16
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The book offers ten essays which explore the interaction between literature and politics.The authors investigate a variety of genres including young-adult fiction, national poetry, novels, autobiography, and performance art from different time periods ranging from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-16
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Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-10-09
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Erzählen vom Tod im Bilderbuch in historischer und gattungstheoretischer Perspektive und bildet anhand eines Textkorpus’ von 287 deutschen bzw. ins Deutsche übersetzten Titeln die Entwicklung von 1945 bis 2011 ab. Entwickelt wird ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-09
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The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it.The author shows how some of the central...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-09
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OFTHE GOTHIC “Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
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This study is a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Norman Mailer’s entire œuvre, including not only his fiction and non-fiction, but also his correspondence, his early journal articles and his interviews. It outlines Mailer’s Entwicklungsgeschichte, illuminating the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-02
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Wie lässt sich das Fronterlebnis erzählen? Dieser Frage sahen sich die Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg gegenüber. Das, was sie an der Front erlebten, ist so neu und einzigartig, so traumatisch und gewaltsam, dass es nicht in Worte gefasst werden kann, selbst wenn es...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-30
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This book was the winner of the 2013 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. The Weimar period (1919–1933) generated an immense wealth of writings that recorded impressions of daily life in the German capital of Berlin. Literary journalism, in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-09-30
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This collection of critical essays proposes new and original readings of the relationship between French and Irish literature and culture. It seeks to re-evaluate, deconstruct and question artistic productions and cultural phenomena while pointing to the potential for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-30
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This book presents the phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. It showcases the literary continuum, as represented by Jamaican, Jamaican-British, and ultimately (Black)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-25
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Das Buch verfolgt ein zweigeteiltes Forschungsinteresse. Zum einen soll anhand literaturdidaktischer Fachzeitschriften rekonstruiert werden, welche jeweils zeitgenössischen Werke aus dem Bereich der Gegenwartsprosa von Literaturdidaktikerinnen und -didaktikern zwischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-18
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A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-09
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A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art. Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman art Contributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-09
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The transcripted conversations that represent the substance of this volume are the result of a research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council.The product of nearly three years of interviews conducted with senior religious figures...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-08-31
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Der Band betrachtet Wechselwirkungen im deutsch-rumänischen Kulturfeld aus drei verschiedenen Perspektiven: zum einen aus der Perspektive der Übersetzung als Vermittler von Literatur, zum anderen aus der Perspektive interkultureller und imagologischer Sichtweisen in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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In diesem Band werden neue Ergebnisse vorgestellt, die anlässlich des 700. Geburtstages Giovanni Boccaccios 2013 im interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen Literaturwissenschaftlern, Historikern, Sozial- und Medienwissenschaftlern in Marburg ausgetauscht wurden. Vor allem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-28
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