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This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later. Focuses on the themes of power and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-06-26
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Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
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Lawrence Venuti’s distinction between foreignizing and domesticating translation is a powerful concept in translation studies. This volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation and presents case studies of film,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-23
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to take up topics in Bayesian Natural...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-06-19
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In Shakespeare's Tragedies: All That Matters, Michael Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's tragedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year. Professor Scott concentrates on the...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2015-06-18
Collection :
All That Matters
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The new media have long become an essential part of the foreign language classroom, and computer enhanced language pedagogy is now becoming a standard in schools. What follows is a growing interest in the research into the effectiveness of such a practice as well as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
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Im Gegensatz zu Westfalen können sich die meisten unter Ostfalen kaum etwas vorstellen. Hier will dieses Werk Abhilfe schaffen. Es stellt den norddeutschen Kulturraum an der Grenze zu Mitteldeutschland umfassend vor. In fünf Großkapiteln äußern sich zehn Sachkenner zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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This book analyzes the ideology-based reception of Adam Mickiewicz in Communist Poland and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in East Germany, the dynamics of that process and the strategies used to exploit the iconic status of the poets for the purpose of reaffirming the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Come tutta la stampa «di regime» anche Legioni e Falangi. Rivista d’Italia e di Spagna / Legiones y Falanges. Revista mensual de Italia y de España (1940–1943), pubblicata tra Roma e Madrid, può leggersi come una narrazione univoca degli avvenimenti di quegli anni...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European nations think about their history and identity. This divide is particularly prominent in the cultural dialogue between...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Was sind verbale Indirektheiten und wie geht die DolmetscherIn mit ihnen um? Auf Grundlage a) theoretisch hergeleiteter Definitionskriterien für eine translationswissenschaftlich/-praktisch orientierte Definition und b) authentischer Daten des Sprachenpaars...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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The book offers a view of national self-identification in the literary culture of twentieth century Romania with a special focus on the postcolonial paradigm. Romanian identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country’s past and the colonial past goes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Das Ende als eine anthropologische Kategorie und Anschauungsform prägte schon immer die kulturellen Diskurse. Der Band versammelt Beiträge über die verschiedensten Imaginationen des Endes, begonnen mit den Untergangsvisionen der altorientalischen Welt und der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Die Studie untersucht die Rezeption der Paradies- und Sündenfallerzählung des Buches Genesis, welche zu den wirkmächtigsten Texten des Alten Testaments zählt. In der christlichen Literatur hat diese eine eindrucksvolle Rezeptionsgeschichte erfahren.Die Autorin nimmt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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The questions the writer Samuel Beckett posed in his dramas, his prose and his poetry are the central questions asked by the most outstanding thinkers of modernity. Samuel Beckett, therefore, is the central figure in this book, but he is not alone. This study is not...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-05-31
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This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Canadian writer Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection of essays by authors from Poland, Canada and France presents an intercultural perspective on her work and a new approach to Munro’s art of short story writing. It offers literary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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This book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thinking skills rely on language, language education should exceed utilitarian and everyday communicative needs and should be...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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