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The aim of this book and its accompanying audio files is to make accessible a corpus of 40 authentic job interviews conducted in English.The recordings and transcriptions of the interviews published here may be used by students, teachers and researchers alike for...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Die Psalterhandschrift Arundel 155 ist ein herausragendes Zeugnis der spätangelsächsischen Kultur. Sie entstand zwischen 1012 und 1023 im Kathedralkloster von Canterbury. Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die erste Gesamtedition der Sammlung von 40 lateinischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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This work, concerned with the significance of literacy and multiliteracies in the 21st century, examines pedagogy from the perspective of Web 2.0 tools and the potential of social networks to improve the quality of learning. Drawing on five years research in German and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Often hailed as a ‘national genre’, the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative conception...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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32 Autorinnen und Autoren reflektieren die internationale Verankerung, die theoretisch-methodische Ausdifferenzierung und das Forschungsinteresse an Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Sie beschäftigen sich in vier Schwerpunkten mit der Theorie,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson’s work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Berthold Jacob war einer der bekanntesten deutschen Journalisten und Pazifisten der Weimarer Republik, der als Anti-Nazi und Jude schon 1932 Zuflucht in Straßburg fand. Im März 1935 wurde er durch die Gestapo über die schweizerisch-deutsche Grenze entführt und in Berlin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der romanischen Länder ist, obwohl seit langem international erfolgreich, in der deutschsprachigen Romanistik bislang noch nicht als systematisches Forschungsfeld etabliert. Dieser Band, der auf eine Sektion des Romanistentags 2013...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Czeslaw Milosz, poet, literary critic, essayist and Nobel Laureate, is a familiar person to the Anglophone literary community. But American and British critics in the main are not very competent in the intimate features of Polish literary culture and have no access to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», or «In-Yer-Face» London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane’s plays were...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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This book delineates a range of linguistic features that characterise the reading texts used at the B2 (Independent User) and C1 (Proficient User) levels of the Greek State Certificate of English Language Proficiency exams in order to help define text difficulty per...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Drawing on theories of biography and autobiography, including the works of Philippe Lejeune, Michel Foucault, and Philip Roth, Rolfe, Rose, Corvo, Crabbe attempts to tackle the issue of Frederick Rolfe’s image. Like many other authors, Rolfe (1860–1913), also known as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Sienkiewicz’s Bodies focuses on the work of the most popular Polish writer from the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. It discusses the surprising success ofSienkiewicz’s writing in relation to the dissection of optimistic illusion that...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hölderlin’s poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and...
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Springer
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2014-12-08
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To gain an understanding of any literary era, one should be exposed to the language of its time and place in history. This is especially critical when considering the innovations in creativity introduced during Europe’s Romantic era. Romanticism: Keywords offers readers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-12-08
Collection :
Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).
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The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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Poesis artificiosa was known in the literary heritage of ancient Greeks and Romans, and in the Far and Middle East. Its tradition was preserved in the Middle Ages and practiced later.Poesis artificiosa gained an unprecedented popularity in the Baroque – a period most...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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A Room of One’s Own, is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women’s movement. This timely and important new edition adopts the complete text of the first British edition published in 1929. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-04
Collection :
Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf
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While the literature of the ancient Near East portrays legendary heroes, this is not the case with the biblical narrative, which portrays the patriarchs and matriarchs as fallible human beings. Their story is a multigenerational one of family and the dynamics that exist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-02
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