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Die Vieldeutigkeit des Dom Juan ist in postmodernen Zeiten oft betont worden, doch ist sie Folge eines Tabus. Das Tabu lautet, dass Molière den in seiner Komödie über fünfzig Mal evozierten Ciel auf keinen Fall in spöttisches Licht setzen wollte. So wird der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to Didymos of Alexandria...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde».The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies. UtilizingShakespeare’s European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de Vega, and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-08-28
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This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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Das Buch befasst sich mit der Repräsentation des Erinnerungsortes Gernika in der spanischsprachigen Literatur. Die Bombardierung der baskischen Kleinstadt im Jahre 1937 stellt ein herausragendes Ereignis des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs dar. Für die Künste lässt sich an...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys’ and V.S. Pritchett’s short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact and conflict in Anglophone literatures, critical theory, cultural...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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«Empirical Methods in Language Studies» presents 22 papers employing a broad range of empirical methods in the analysis of various aspects of language and communication. The individual texts offer contributions to the description of conceptual strategies, syntax,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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Bis dat, qui cito dat – never has a proverb more aptly applied to an individual than does this Medieval Latin saying to Wolfgang Mieder. «He gives twice who gives quickly» captures the essence of his entire career, his professional as well as personal life. As a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in...
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Springer
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2015-08-27
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Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literary works and authors are treated as superior to others, and questions the literary establishment’s criteria for creating an imperium of “great” writers. Enables readers to articulate and formulate their own arguments...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-08-26
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Monika Tokarzewska zeigt, wie Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Novalis und Jean Paul Motive aus der nachkopernikanischen und newtonschen Astronomie in Schlüsselmetaphern verwandeln und mit ihrer Hilfe die Möglichkeiten eines neuen Grundlagendenkens und -handelns im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period. Features essays...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-14
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-08-14
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Die Autorin untersucht aus der Perspektive der Englischdidaktik, welchen Beitrag der Englischunterricht zur Entwicklung individueller Mehrsprachigkeit leisten kann. Sie skizziert potenzielle Mehrsprachigkeitsfelder und gibt Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der Beteiligten,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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CLIL Revisited liefert eine kritische Analyse des alsCLIL oder bilingualer Sachfachunterricht bezeichneten Unterrichtskonzepts. Zentrale Fragen, die in der Forschung und in den beteiligten Didaktiken zur Debatte stehen, werden innerhalb des Sammelbands aufgegriffen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In a time of global environmental crisis, pastoralism may seem beside the point. Yet pastoral ideals are still alive even though they often manifest themselves by ironic indirection. What can the pastoral tradition teach us about our ties to particular places? The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-07
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